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Zuni daily lifeBook 1956 • Roberts, John M. (John Milton)
Zuni • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document is essentially a report of ethnographic observations made by the author, a professional anthropologist then at the University of Nebraska, on Zuni daily life in different small group contexts, over a period of five days in 1951. The sma...Three Navaho householdsBook 1951 • Roberts, John M. (John Milton)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This study is the third in the series of Ramah Project Reports. Focusing on three Navajo households, the author attempts to explore the methodological significance of the small group culture concept by comparing interhousehold similarities and differ...Zuni kin termsBook 1956 • Schneider, David Murray & Roberts, John M. (John Milton)
Zuni • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this excellent document the authors examine the kinship system of the Zuni in order to ascertain the basic principles and underlying the terminology and to test the interpretations of Zuni kinship offered in earlier works by Kroeber and Eggan. The...Zuni lawBook 1954 • Smith, Watson et al.
Zuni • North America > Southwest and Basin
This monograph, one of the first published accounts dealing with problems of legal control in a Southwestern pueblo, will serve according to the authors as a preliminary study and working paper for future relevant research in Zuni. The stated goals i...