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Life is harder here: the case of the urban Navajo woman
American Indian quarterly • 6 (1 & 2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 90-104
By: Griffen, Joyce.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Navajo women, who had worked sometime in their lives off of the reservation in Flagstaff, Arizona. Griffen interviewed a total of 22 women. She asked questions about their education, employment history, marriage, religious background, coping mechanisms, and reciprocal help with relatives or non-kin.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Adjustment processes
- Mutual aid
- Extended families
- Religious denominations
- Liberal arts education
- 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
- 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
- 1977-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1977-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Flagstaff, Ariz., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joyce Griffen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 104)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians