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Life is harder herearticle 1982 • Griffen, Joyce
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a study of Navajo women, who had worked sometime in their lives off of the reservation in Flagstaff, Arizona. Griffen interviewed a total of 22 women. She asked questions about their education, employment history, marriage, religious backgrou...Variations on a rite of passagearticle 1978 • Griffen, Joyce
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this article Griffen comments on how Navajo funerals have become more sociable affairs focused on the survivors rather than the deceased's spirit. Traditional burials involved as few people as possible to avoid any harmful contact with the ghost. ...Books by Navajo womenarticle 1982 • Griffen, Joyce & Rose, Wendy
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document is a bibliography of books by Navajo women, published between 1940 and 1981....