Book
Navajo land use: an ethnoarchaeological study
Academic Press • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Kelley, Klara B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a history of Navajo land use and settlement patterns from mid-nineteenth century on. The author documents the changes in these patterns during the railroad era, depression (1930-1950), and industrial era (1950-1983). According to Kelley the change in the dominant form of capitalist practice from merchant to industrial capitalism transformed the Navajo economy from sheep raising and the wool trade to wage labor. The large scale reduction of the sheep herds in the 1930s was the turning point. No longer able to support themselves by sheep rasing, many Navajo settled in the towns and sought out work there, including the large strip mines that began to operate in the area. Kelley also examines changes in housing, settlement sizes, household configuration and structure, and relationships between households.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Annual cycle
- Pastoral activities
- Real property
- External trade
- Household
- Public welfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1848-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Navajo Reservation, Arizona and New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Klara B. Kelley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85013361
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians