Willow Roberts Powers
Biographic Data
| ID | 132917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willow Roberts Powers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willow Roberts |
| FAMILY NAME | Powers |
| SIGNATURE | POWERS W R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
David M. Brugge (1927–2013)
Trails to Tiburón
Healing Ways
Journal Article Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century and Navajo Trading: The End of an Era Get access Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century. By Davies Wade. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xv + 248 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)Navajo Trading: The End of an Era. By Powers Willow Roberts. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xiv + 282 …
Part-Timers Unite
Grit-tempered
The Harvard study of values
In 1949, social scientists at Harvard University began a long-range, multidisciplinary research project called the Comparative Study of Values in Five Cultures. The topic of values had been hotly debated since the 1920s, a debate that was renewed with vigor in the postwar period. When Clyde Kluckhohn, an anthropologist well known for his work among the Navajos, designed the Values Study research, he thus focused on a topic of much interest. This …
A history of anthropological theory
John Adair, 1913-1997
John Adair was an anthropologist whose career covered several different aspects of the anthropological discipline: Native American art studies, visual anthropology, and applied anthropology. He was a photographer and a cinematographer, and his work almost always had an applied and an interdisciplinary element. Adair died in December 1997; it is too soon to write a critical evaluation of his work. This essay is a memorial, briefly describing his m…
John Adair (1913-1997)
Images across Boundaries
Photographs, and work with photograph collections, are among the delights of archival research. We are visual creatures; images speak to us with an immediacy and on a different level from that of words. For that reason, photographs taken across cultural boundaries present problems and issues that need to be revealed and addressed. This essay is concerned with archival photographs of Native American tribes and pueblos in the American Southwest; it…
Sheep and Land
Images across Boundaries
Photographs, and work with photograph collections, are among the delights of archival research. We are visual creatures; images speak to us with an immediacy and on a different level from that of words. For that reason, photographs taken across cultural boundaries present problems and issues that need to be revealed and addressed. This essay is concerned with archival photographs of Native American tribes and pueblos in the American Southwest; it…
Sheep and Land
Images across Boundaries
Photographs, and work with photograph collections, are among the delights of archival research. We are visual creatures; images speak to us with an immediacy and on a different level from that of words. For that reason, photographs taken across cultural boundaries present problems and issues that need to be revealed and addressed. This essay is concerned with archival photographs of Native American tribes and pueblos in the American Southwest; it…
A history of anthropological theory
John Adair, 1913-1997
John Adair was an anthropologist whose career covered several different aspects of the anthropological discipline: Native American art studies, visual anthropology, and applied anthropology. He was a photographer and a cinematographer, and his work almost always had an applied and an interdisciplinary element. Adair died in December 1997; it is too soon to write a critical evaluation of his work. This essay is a memorial, briefly describing his m…
John Adair (1913-1997)
Part-Timers Unite
Grit-tempered
The Harvard study of values
In 1949, social scientists at Harvard University began a long-range, multidisciplinary research project called the Comparative Study of Values in Five Cultures. The topic of values had been hotly debated since the 1920s, a debate that was renewed with vigor in the postwar period. When Clyde Kluckhohn, an anthropologist well known for his work among the Navajos, designed the Values Study research, he thus focused on a topic of much interest. This …
Trails to Tiburón
Healing Ways
Journal Article Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century and Navajo Trading: The End of an Era Get access Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century. By Davies Wade. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xv + 248 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)Navajo Trading: The End of an Era. By Powers Willow Roberts. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xiv + 282 …
David M. Brugge (1927–2013)
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