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Traditional Navajo women: ethnographic and life history portrayals
American Indian quarterly • 6 (1 & 2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 11-33
By: Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study, Frisbie examines the life of Navajo women before the Second World War based on ten ethnographies and 14 life histories. She discusses childbirth and child rearing, housekeeping, food preparation, farming, hauling, animal husbandry, recreation, arts and crafts, ritual knowledge and involvement, values, troubles and worries. She also looks at women's participation outside the home in history and politics.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- article
- 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
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1871-1944
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charlotte J. Frisbie
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-33)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians