Navajo Women

Author : Betty Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Women written by Betty Reid and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to modern Navajo women traces how they have evolved from traditional childbearing and housekeeping roles to those of today's high-powered business and political leaders.

Author : Nia Francisco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Horses for Navajo Women written by Nia Francisco and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s, t.

Author : Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547815
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molded in the Image of Changing Woman written by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might result from hearing a particular song, wearing used clothing, or witnessing an accident? Ethnographic accounts of the Navajo refer repeatedly to the influences of events on health and well-being, yet until now no attempt has been made to clarify the Navajo system of rules governing association and effect. This book focuses on the complex interweaving of the cosmological, social, and bodily realms that Navajo people navigate in an effort alternately to control, contain, or harness the power manifested in various effects. Following the Navajo life-course from conception to puberty, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz explores the complex rules defining who or what can affect what or whom in specific circumstances as a means of determining what these effects tell us about the cultural construction of the human body and personhood for the Navajo. Schwarz shows how oral history informs Navajo conceptions of the body and personhood, showing how these conceptions are central to an ongoing Navajo identity. She treats the vivid narratives of emergence life-origins as compressed metaphorical accounts, rather than as myth, and is thus able to derive from what individual Navajos say about the past their understandings of personhood in a worldview that is actually a viable philosophical system. Working with Navajo religious practitioners, elders, and professional scholars. Schwarz has gained from her informants an unusually firm grasp of the Navajo highlighted by the foregrounding of Navajo voices through excerpts of interviews. These passages enliven the book and present Schwarz and her Navajo consultants as real, multifaceted human beings within the ethnographic context.

Author : Louise Lamphere
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826342782
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weaving Women's Lives written by Louise Lamphere and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.

Author : Gladys Amanda Reichard
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826317933
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider Woman written by Gladys Amanda Reichard and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to stay with the family of Red-Point, a well-known Navajo singer, it was unusual for an anthropologist to live with a family and become intimately connected with women's activities. First published in 1934 for a popular audience, Spider Woman is valued today not just for its information on Navajo culture but as an early example of the kind of personal, honest ethnography that presents actual experiences and conversations rather than generalizing the beliefs and behaviors of a whole culture. Readers interested in Navajo weaving will find it especially useful, but Spider Woman's picture of daily life goes far beyond rugs to describe trips to the trading post, tribal council meetings, curing ceremonies, and the deaths of family members.

Author : Robert S. McPherson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Women of Monument Valley written by Robert S. McPherson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McPherson, through this oral history of Navajo Women living in Monument Valley, provides a unique story of cultural understanding specific to the area. From personal experience and a shared heritage, these women explain their early struggles in life, religious beliefs and sacred teachings, daily activities of a traditional family, and later, battling against cultural loss. Today's rapidly changing world challenges these elders while enticing the young to forget what it means to be Diné. Here, these women share what they want the youth to know. I highly recommend this book to those who wish to learn about the past, understand the present, and consider the future." --Ronald P. Maldonado, Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Supervisor "The teachings and stories presented here are fascinating and important. When reading them, I heard my granmother's and aunt's voices, connecting me to the past while strengthening my understanding of Navajo culture. It is the women who are the heard and soul of preserving this information as they guide youth into the future. Here that wisdom becomes real. Those interested in a balanced presentation of the difficult, yet rewarding live of Navajo elders will be highly rewarded by learning from this book" --Charlotte Nez Lacy, Heritage Language Educator/Translator

Author : Luci Tapahonso
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816513619
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S‡anii Dahataa_, the Women are Singing written by Luci Tapahonso and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cycle of poetry and stories by the Navajo writer explores her memories of home in Shiprock, New Mexico; of significant events such as birth, partings, and reunions; and of life with her family. By the author of Seasonal Woman. Simultaneous.

Author : Emily Benedek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806130835
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Four Corners of the World written by Emily Benedek and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination biography and cultural history chronicles the lives of Navajo Ella Bedonie and her extended family, from Ella's childhood on the Four Corners Reservation to her education and marriage

Author : Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816523016
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Voice written by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on interviews with seventeen Navajo women practitioners and five apprentices, the author examines Navajo women's role as ceremonial practitioners, examining the gender differences dictated by the Navajo origin story, detailing how women came to be practitioners, and revealing their experiences and the strategies they use to negotiate being both woman and singer.

Author : Rose Mitchell
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826322036
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tall Woman written by Rose Mitchell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays Navajo weaver and midwife Tall Woman, who held onto traditional Navajo ways, raised twelve children, and cared for the farm throughout her marriage to political leader and Blessingway singer Frank Mitchell.