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Ladies, livestock, land and lucre: women's networks and social status on the western Navajo reservation
American Indian quarterly • 6 (1 & 2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 105-124
By: Conte, Christine.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an account of women's economic strategies in a remote part of the Navajo reservation. Black Mesa families are a mix of part-time and full-time residents, mostly all related through the female line. Conte found a high degree of cooperation among sisters living in different households, helping each other to manage livestock, garden, gather pine nuts, and transportation. She also discusses disputes over grazing rights between part-time and full-time residents and plans by the latter to fence off their property and charge grazing fees to outsiders. According to Conte, women's status is based on the kinship relations activated in the above activities and exchanges.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Production and supply
- Division of labor by gender
- Mutual aid
- Household
- Extended families
- 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
- 1976, 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1941-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Black Mesa, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christine Conte
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians