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 show the people's problems in coping with their
physical environment; their social life among their own people;
their contacts with whites and other Indians and especially with
the Government; their economy; their religious beliefs and
practices; their language and the problems this raises in their
education and their relationships to whites; and their explicit and
implicit philosophy.
This book presents not only a study of Navaho life, however: it
is an impartial discussion of an interesting experiment in
Government administration of a dependent people, a discussion which
is significant for contemporary problems of a wider scope; colonial
questions; the whole issue of the contact of different races and
peoples. It will appeal to every one interested in the Indians, in
the Southwest, in anthropology, in sociology, and to many general
readers.
This work forms the most thorough-going study ever made of the
Navaho Indians, and perhaps of any Indian group. The book was
written as a part of the Indian Education Research project
undertaken jointly by the Committee on Human Development of the
University of Chicago and the United States Office of Indian
Affairs. The cooperation of a psychiatrist and anthropologist both
in the research for, and in the writing of, this study is
noteworthy--as is the fusion of methods and points of view derived
frommedicine, psychology, and anthropology. Probably no
anthropological study has ever been based upon so many years of
field work by so many different persons.
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