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The status of Navajo women
American Indian quarterly • 6 (1 & 2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 149-169
By: Shepardson, Mary.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Shepardson examines how acculturation and social change has affected the status of Navajo women. She looks at three periods: i) before stock reduction (1868-1933), ii) during and after stock reduction (1933-1950s), iii) and the present day (1980s). In the beginning Navajo women enjoyed relatively high status, which was largely based on egalitarian relationships in the household. Their status declined under stock reduction, which devastated the traditional rural way of life. Since that period, education, job opportunities, tribal legislation, and general improving economic conditions on the reservation have all helped to boost women's status once again. Shepardson compares the status three groups of women based on their degree of assimilation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- 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
- 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1868-1981
- 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
- Mary Shepardson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-169)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians