University Press of Kansas, 2008. — 304 p. In works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft. And when their artisans were integrated into the American economy during the late nineteenth century, they became part of a complex cultural and economic framework in which their handmade crafts conveyed meanings beyond simple adornment. As...
2nd Edition. — Bear & Company, 2021. — 208 p. In 1971, Erica Elliott arrived on the Navajo reservation as a newly minted schoolteacher, knowing nothing about her students or their culture. After a discouraging first week, she almost leaves in despair, unable to communicate with the children or understand cultural cues. But once she starts learning the language, the people begin...
Balboa Press, 2019. — 202 p. After her first week teaching at a boarding school on the Navajo Reservation near Canyon de Chelly, young Erica Elliott almost leaves in despair, unable to communicate with the children or understand cultural cues. But once she starts learning the Navajo language, the people begin to trust her, taking her into their homes and ceremonies. As she is...
University of New Mexico Press, 1994. — 288 p. The Nightway chant is a Navajo healing ceremonial that extends over several days and incorporates detailed songs, prayers, sandpaintings, and the use of sacred material objects, such as masks. Now available in paperback, The Nightway traces the history and genealogies of Nightway medicine men and the history of the recording and...
University of New Mexico Press, 1994. — 288 p. The Nightway chant is a Navajo healing ceremonial that extends over several days and incorporates detailed songs, prayers, sandpaintings, and the use of sacred material objects, such as masks. Now available in paperback, The Nightway traces the history and genealogies of Nightway medicine men and the history of the recording and...
University of New Mexico Press, 2018. — 384 p. Around the world, indigenous peoples are returning to traditional foods produced by traditional methods of subsistence. The goal of controlling their own food systems, known as food sovereignty, is to reestablish healthy lifeways to combat contemporary diseases such as diabetes and obesity. This is the first book to focus on the...
University of New Mexico Press, 1978. — 456 p. Fascinating life story of an American Indian ceremonial singer. Includes a full account of the Blessingway rite, the central ceremony of traditional Navajo religion, and a wealth of information on Navajo philosophy and religious practice. Charlotte J. Frisbie is a professor emerita of anthropology at Southern Illinois University,...
Inner Traditions, 1994. — 350 p. The similarity between the Navajo and Tibetan spiritual traditions has often been remarked upon by scholars chiefly because of the mandala sand paintings common to both cultures, their ideas about matter and spirit, and their uncanny physical resemblance to one another. Author Peter Gold substantiates the shared knowledge of these seemingly...
University of New Mexico Press, 1998. — 240 p. To the Navajo, sandpaintings are sacred, living entities that reflect the interconnectedness of all living beings - humans, plants, stars, animals, and mountains. This book explores the circularity of Navajo thought in analyses of sandpaintings, Navajo chantway myths, and stories reflected in the celestial constellations. Beginning...
University of New Mexico Press, 1998. — 240 p.
To the Navajo, sandpaintings are sacred, living entities that reflect the interconnectedness of all living beings - humans, plants, stars, animals, and mountains. This book explores the circularity of Navajo thought in analyses of sandpaintings, Navajo chantway myths, and stories reflected in the celestial constellations. Beginning...
University of Utah Press, 1996. — 126 p.
Father Berard Haile (1874–1961), O.F.M., was a Franciscan priest and one of the foremost authorities on Navajo anthropology.
Father Haile spent a lifetime studying and recording Navajo ceremonial practices. His ethnographic work was held in wide regard by contemporary anthropologists, and he is still commonly cited by present-day...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. — 420 p. For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. Author and scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively and in A Navajo Legacy records his full and fascinating life. In the first part of this book, Holiday describes how, at an...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. — 139 p. The Navajos, the largest Indian tribe in the United States today, occupy a 25,000-square-mile reservation that stretches over portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. About 500 years ago, their ancestors migrated southward from what is now northern Canada. In the Southwest, they learned from the Pueblos how to farm and later acquired...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. — 488 p. Navaho Material Culture was conceived in the 1940s when the noted anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn began to collect data for a reference work on Navaho objects. The unique work he began was concluded by W. W. Hill and Lucy Wales Kluckhohn, who incorporated unpublished data collected by more than twenty research workers...
Harvard University Press, 1946. — 278 p. What are the Navaho today? How do they live together and with other races? What is their philosophy of life? Both the general reader and the student will look to this authoritative study for the answers to such questions. The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the present, and then present Navaho life today. They...
Harvard University Press, 1946. — 278 p. What are the Navaho today? How do they live together and with other races? What is their philosophy of life? Both the general reader and the student will look to this authoritative study for the answers to such questions. The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the present, and then present Navaho life today. They...
Revised Edition — Anchor Books & American Museum of Natural History, 1962. — 368 p. What are the Navaho today? How do they live together and with other races? What is their philosophy of life? Both the general reader and the student will look to this authoritative study for the answers to such questions. The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the...
Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. — 290 p. Witchcraft is defined by Clyde Kluckhohn as "the influencing of events by super-natural techniques that are socially disapproved," and his description and analysis of Navaho ideas and actions related to witchcraft illuminate the ways in which society deals with the ambition for power, the aggressiveness, and the anxiety of its members. Clyde...
University of New Mexico Press, 2011. — 230 p. Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce. After the...
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2008. — 228 p.
A chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveler out of his middle-class London life and into the world of the North American Indian Medicine Men, where people believe that witchcraft can bring ruin and even death. Only the Medicine Men have the knowledge to do battle with witches, lift curses and restore the...
New introduction by Jennifer Denetdale. — University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 354 p. With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring of 1868 "when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of [his] thumbnail", of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As he grows older, his account...
New introduction by Jennifer Denetdale. — University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 354 p. With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring of 1868 "when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of [his] thumbnail", of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As he grows older, his account...
6th edition. — Holloway House, 2002. — 496 p. — ISBN10 0876875002, ISBN13 978-0876875001. The definitive work on the people of the Navajo Nation. First published in 1976, it is now in its 6th edition and is used in anthropology an American studies departments of major univerities throughout the world Raymond Locke (1936-2002) was an editor, historian, and the author of The Book...
University of Utah Press, 1997. — 265 p. The Mountain Chant is a nine-day Navajo healing ceremony, one of several major rites undertaken only in winter. Aside from curing disease, it brings rain and invokes the unseen powers for general benefit. Though perhaps practiced less often now than better-known ceremonies such as the Night Chant, it is by no means forgotten. Fully faithful...
University of Utah Press, 1995. — 332 p.
The Night Chant is one of the great nine-day, Navajo winter healing ceremonies. During its course, nearly all the important characters of the Navajo pantheon are mentioned in legends, depicted in sand paintings, and impersonated with the use of masks and other ritual objects. Originally published in 1902, Washington Matthews's "The Night...
Routledge, 2002. — 256 p. "A Place To Be Navajo" is the only book-length ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. Called Diné Bi'ólta' , The People's School, in recognition of its status as the first American Indian community-controlled school, Rough Rock was the first to teach in...
University of Arizona Press, 2022. — 288 p. A New Deal for Navajo Weaving provides a detailed history of early to mid-twentieth-century Diné weaving projects by non-Natives who sought to improve the quality and marketability of Navajo weaving but in so doing failed to understand the cultural significance of weaving and its role in the lives of Diné women. By the 1920s the...
University Press of Colorado, 2012. — 220 p. Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction to traditional Navajo...
University Press of Colorado, 2012. — 220 p. Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction to traditional Navajo...
University Press of Colorado, 2012. — 220 p. Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction to traditional Navajo...
Utah State University Press, 2000. — 235 p. Ak'é Nýdzin, or Navajo Oshley, was born sometime between 1879 and 1893. His oral memoir is set on the northern frontier of Navajo land, principally the San Juan River basin in southeastern Utah, and tells the story of his early life near Dennehetso and his travels, before there were roads or many towns, from Monument Valley north along...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. — 284 p. Navaho medicine man and sand painter Hosteen Klah (1867-1937) bridged the long span from the old days of tribal greatness and warfare to the new days of tribal greatness and warfare to the new days of change and adjustment. Thus the story of Klah told here is also the story of his prominent family and reflects nearly two hundred...
Thrums Books, 2018. — 144 p. Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman’s Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda...
Blue Rider Press, 2019. — 272 p. The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 871 p. — (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology 109). In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation toward humankind and their gods, and their conception of the supernatural, as...
Editions du Rocher, 2020. — 360 p. S'il y a une approche primordiale sacralisée de la mythologie du Diné, les Navajos, c'est bien celle qui procède des rituels de guérison. Au-delà des symptômes et des soins apportés au corps physique, ces rituels cherchent toujours à replacer la psyché de l'individu en harmonie avec l'ensemble des forces naturelles et surnaturelles qui...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. — 265 pp. — ISBN: 0-8061-3310-4. This collection of six essays shows how Navajo people are using their traditional beliefs to cope with contemporary issues. Some of these are crisis issues, for example the outbreak of hantavirus in 1993. Others are chronic issues, such as how to deal with relatives who are problem drinkers or how to...
University of Arizona Press, 2003. — 186 p. Adulthood in the Navajo world is marked by the onset of menstruation in females and by the deepening of the voice in males. Accordingly, young adults must accept responsibility over the powers manifest in blood and voice: for women, the forces that control reproduction and growth; for men, the powers of protection and restoration of...
University Press of Colorado, 2017. — 256 p. Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science - one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug trade in the mid-nineteenth century...
Indiana University Press, 1975. — 300 p. Originally published in 1972, this pioneering book has become a classic in visual anthropology. Worth and Adair set out to answer the question, What would happen if someone from a culture that makes and uses motion pictures taught people who have never made or used motion pictures to do so for the first time? They taught filmmaking and...
New York: The Fourth International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, 1975. — 32 p. Яззи Этелу. Мудрость и традиции народа навахо (на англ. яз.) The oral literature of the Navajo people generally falls into two categories: the sacred stories and the folk tales, which often, but not always, point a moral. Sacred stories relate the Navajo's emergence history. These stories...
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