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The Navajo as Seen by the Franciscans is the story of one of the
great cultural confluences in American history, the coming of
Franciscan missionaries to the Navajo people. Here, in the words of
the friars who lived it, is part of that remarkable story.
Utilizing both primary and secondary materials, this sourcebook
aims to make more readily accessible the views of the Franciscans,
both in their personal writings and in national publications and
mission magazines addressing the Catholic laity and potential
donors. Selections include internal reports and position papers not
intended for publication, diaries and personal correspondence, and
notes and unfinished drafts. Each text is introduced by the editor
and has been carefully selected for inclusion to provide a
comprehensive view of the Navajo of the late 19th and early 20th
century, as well as insights into those that served them as
teachers, advocates, counselors, and medical missionaries. Because
most Franciscan missionaries came to live among the Navajo for
their entire lives, their primary commitment was neither to
"science" nor to publication for their academic peers, but to the
welfare, both here and in the hereafter, of those among whom they
served, allowing for a complex and mutually beneficial relationship
between the two. This volume covers the remarkably productive first
decades of the Franciscan missions to the Navajo, during the
ministry of Father Anselm Weber, from the arrival of the first
missionaries in 1898 to Fr. Anselm's passing in 1921. Its 43
chapters are divided into six parts: Beginnings, Indian Policy,
Early Ministry 1901-1910, Navajo Land, Among the People 1911-1920,
and Navajo Customs and Character. Supplemented by 16 rare black and
white photographs, this reference work is a fascinating glance into
the lives of two cultures forever changed by each other.
Much academic writing on families reflects the ideal of
non-involvement and distanced subject matter. Toward More
Family-Centered Family Sciences suggests that the family sciences,
in their effort to be scientific, have perpetuated this distance
between researcher and subject, to the detriment of both. The
authors argue that family and kinship ties are transcendent ties,
boundary-crossing in numerous ways. They place an emphasis on
family love, in contrast and in addition to romantic love, and
criticize current approaches for neglecting the importance of
transcendent concepts such as love, commitment, respect, and
sacrifice in the development and well being of family structures.
Drawing from insights both inside and outside of academia, the
authors seek to reincorporate transcendent concepts into the study
of the family as a unit of society. They argue for a more
collaborative, family-centered family science and offer
recommendations for how family researchers might work to change the
scientific monologue about families to a systemic dialogue with
families.
Much academic writing on families reflects the ideal of
non-involvement and distanced subject matter. Toward More
Family-Centered Family Sciences suggests that the family sciences,
in their effort to be scientific, have perpetuated this distance
between researcher and subject, to the detriment of both. The
authors argue that family and kinship ties are transcendent ties,
boundary-crossing in numerous ways. They place an emphasis on
family love, in contrast and in addition to romantic love, and
criticize current approaches for neglecting the importance of
transcendent concepts such as love, commitment, respect, and
sacrifice in the development and well being of family structures.
Drawing from insights both inside and outside of academia, the
authors seek to reincorporate transcendent concepts into the study
of the family as a unit of society. They argue for a more
collaborative, family-centered family science and offer
recommendations for how family researchers might work to change the
scientific monologue about families to a systemic dialogue with
families.
The most complete overview and assessment of Mormon village studies
available, this volume extends the canon twofold. First, it
presents a rich composite view of nineteenth-century Mormon life in
the West as seen by qualified observers who did not just pass
through but stopped and studied. Second, it connects that early
protoethnography to scholarly Mormon village studies in the
twentieth century, showing their proper context in the thriving
field of community studies. Based mostly on nine famous travellers'
accounts of life among the Mormons, including Richard Burton,
Elizabeth Kane, Howard Stansbury, John Gunnison, and Julius
Benchley-Bahr's volume introduces these talented observers,
summarises and analyses their observation, and constructs a
holistic overview of Mormon village life. He concludes by tracing
the rise and continuity of Mormon village studies in the twentieth
century, beginning with Lowry Nelson's 1923 research in Escalante,
Utah. Over the following three decades, the genre expanded beyond
Nelson and his students, becoming more sophisticated and
interdisciplinary; by the mid-1950s it was a subfield within the
respected arena of community studies. Researchers continued to
study Mormon communities in the following decades and into the
twenty-first century.
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