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The Navajo

James F. Downs

A useful, easily read description of Navajo peoples! This case study of the people of Nez Ch’ii—a significant Navajo community and one that still holds to a pastoral herding ecology that has characterized some of the Navajo for at least 250 years—offers the right blend of description and theory. In addition to describing the important themes of this culture (including the importance of females, the inviolability of the individual, the prestige of age, and the reciprocity principle), Downs discusses, in detail, the relationships between the Nez Ch’ii families and their herds as well as their relationship to the dominant culture surrounding them.
 

$14.95 list, 136 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-037-X

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-037-3

© 1972

Table of Contents

1. Evolution of the Navajo People

2. Primary Organization and Physical Environment

3. Society

4. The Social Units

5. Residence, Mobility, and Land Tenure

6. The Animals

7. The Crops

8. Religion

9. Wealth and the Traders

10. Headman and Chairmen

11. Change and Continuity