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The psychosocial analysis of a Hopi life-historyBook 1951 • Aberle, David Friend
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is an attempt “to analyze a single life-history for the light it sheds on the society in which the subject lives” (p. 1). It should be read in conjunction with or after Talayesva (...Navahoessay 1974 • Aberle, David Friend
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source reviews all known data on Navajo kinship and matrilineality, based primarily upon the work of other previous ethnographers. The author discusses in detail the working of Navajo soc...Peyote religion among the Navajoessay 1983 • Aberle, David Friend
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article focuses on the growth of the Native American Church among the Navajo. Three fundamental issues are addressed: the spread of Peyotism from other tribes through the Navajo populatio...Navajo economic developmentessay 1983 • Aberle, David Friend
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This chapter covers a broad range of topics on Navajo economic development and planning. Beginning with an historical overview, the author (an ethnologist) then moves to more detailed discussi...Navajo coresidential kin groups and lineagesarticle 1981 • Aberle, David Friend
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this article, Aberle attempts to make more comprehensible the 'amorphous character of Navajo kinship organization' (p. 1). In particular he describes the 'coresidential kin group' or CKG. T...