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University Of Colorado Studies, Series In Anthropology, No. 6.
University Of Colorado Studies, Series In Anthropology, No. 6.
In this book, which was originally published in 1974, lexical
reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social
anthropology and linguistics. The Athapaskan language family has
members in Alaska, western Canada, the west coast and southwest of
the United States, and Oklahoma. The authors use the kinship
terminology of existing Athapaskan languages and dialects to
provide a lexical reconstruction of the kinship terminology of the
mother-language, Proto-Athapaskan, which existed perhaps 1,500 or
more years ago. A central contribution of the work is the explicit
delineation of the method used in lexical reconstruction to arrive
at the likeliest inferences about the meanings of proto-lexemes.
Other methodological contributions include a method for inferring
features of social organization from kinship terminology and for
reconstructing other features of social organization from the
distribution of these features among existing groups.
"David F. Aberle's book on Navajo peyotism is by far the most
comprehensive and complete of any on a North American tribe, and
the Navajo nation is the largest in the United States. He discusses
the specific politico-economic context and the crisis in the
longtime struggle, and traces in detail the conflict of the
traditional and the new religion." Weston La Barre. "A sound,
scholarly work which has joined the ranks of anthropological
classics since its original 1966 publication." American Indian
Quarterly. "The chapters attending to the rituals of Peyotism and
the contrast between it and Navaho religion are particularly good,
though none of the materials can be faulted. Of import are the
chapters explicating the Native American Church, Navaho style, in
the theoretical context of social movements." Choice. "Today
peyotism is a political as well as a religious issue to the Navaho
people....A large part of [this] scholarly and impressive
contribution is devoted to this aspect....Aberle has not been
content to present ritual divorced from philosophy, and his
discussion of the underlying though of peyotists is valuable to the
student of religions in general....[His] study of the economic
aspects of peyotism is closely detailed, and indeed, this book is
one of the few publications which present such material in compact
form for any North American Indian group." Science.
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