Book
Gregorio, the hand-trembler: a psychobiological personality study of a Navaho Indian
The Museum • 40 (1) • Published In 1949 • Pages: xiv, 177
By: Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), Leighton, Dorothea Cross.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the first of the Peabody Museum reports on the Ramah project. The project is a systematic study of the Navajo living in the off-reservation area of Ramah, which began officially in 1936. It is based on the belief that following a small community and its culture through time was a needed experiment in anthropology. Pooling their resources in this project are some thirty people representing such varied fields as anthropology, physiology, psychology, botany, immunology, education, etc. Thus, the fortunes of the individuals and their culture are charted by multiple observation. This report, by two distinguished psychiatrists who have also earned a well-deserved reputation as anthropologists, introduces a new method of presenting and analyzing personal document data. Part I is an attempt to describe, analyze, and interpret the life of a particular Navajo who happens to be a hand-trembler (Gregorio). Part II consists of the material on which this formulation is based. It contains not only an autobiography as dictated through an interpreter by Gregorio, but also field observations made in a day-by-day record of the authors and other participants in the project. This material is grouped under the following topics: Subsistence, Survival, Social Relationships, Constitutional Nature, Opinions and Attitudes, and Religion. The total result is a psycho-biological personality study, although unfortunately, there are certain major gaps in the information, such as data on sex behavior, habits of thought, and dreams.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Adjustment processes
- Life history materials
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Family relationships
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Revelation and divination
- Organized ceremonial
- 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.
- Psychiatrist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939-1942
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1902-1940s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ramah, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton with the assistance of Catherine Opler
- Includes bibliographical references (p. vii-viii, 167-168)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 51001908
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians/Navajo Indians