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Navajo eschatologybook chapter 1942 • Wyman, Leland Clifton et al.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a good account by three well-known ethnologists of Navajo concepts of the afterlife. Specifically it deals with the activities of 'ghosts' and the prevention of cure of sickness resulting from them, and the nature of the after-world. Througho...