Book
Healing ways: Navajo health care in the twentieth century
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque • Published In 2001 • Pages:
By: Davies, Wade.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a very good history of the development of health care among the Navaho from traditional times to the end of the twentieth century. It chronicles the struggle and eventual accommodation between two complimentary forms of medical practice. Traditional practices served an important role in alleviating stress and anxiety associated with modern life, so much so that traditional medical schools were funded once it became evident that the old practitioners were dying out and the traditional apprenticeship method was no longer functioning. In 1997 the Indian Health Service hired its first native healer.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Health and welfare
- Sickness
- 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.
- Physician
- 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
- Not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1846-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Wade Davies
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2001001844
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians