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A Comparative study of Navajo mortuary practices
American Indian quarterly • 4 (4) • Published In 1978 • Pages: 309-328
By: Brugge, David M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Brugge compares Navajo burial practices with that of neighboring cultures and other Athapaskan cultures in North America. He compiled an extensive trait list of 175 items and notes the presence and absence of traits in each of seven cultures.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North America
- NotesAdditional notes
- David M. Brugge
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-328)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians