Some Personal and Social Aspects of Navaho Ceremonial Practice

1 January 1939

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Harvard Theological Review

Vol. 32 (1) , 57-82
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000021593

Abstract

Here and there in the published literature on Navaho ceremonials one finds a suggestive detail or an illuminating general statement bearing on the relationship of ceremonial organization to social organization, but we have not yet had a systematic analysis of any body of data from this point of view. This paper will supplement my “Participation in Ceremonials in a Navaho Community” in the direction of providing an account of the “religious” behaviors of the Ramah-Atarque Navahos. The treatment will center around the family and clan affiliation of practitioners, their teachers, patients, and those attending ceremonials, but it will be convenient to incorporate also a few details bearing on individual status.

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NAVAHO DIAGNOSTICIANS¹
American Anthropologist, 1936