Navajo Architecture

Forms, History, Distributions

Bibliographic Data

ID7399871
AuthorsJoyce Griffen, Joyce G Griffen, Stephen C Jett, Virginia E Spencer
Year1983
Volume7
Issue1
Pages90-90
Publication date1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1183886
OpenAlexW1983934318
LanguageEN
Citations received10

ed by Belinda Blomberg This study classifies and describes a wide variety of structure forms found throughout the Navajo Country of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. These forms are illustrated by numerous photographs and diagrams. The classificatory scheme is also extended to include the origins and evolution of some dwelling types as well as their areal and temporal distributions. Several archaeological problems such as material indications of ethnicity, acculturation, and culture change are considered. The treatment of the variety encountered in Navajo architectural forms will be particularly useful to anthropologists and ethnoarchaeologists concerned with Navajo data. However, all archaeologists dealing with the standardization and analysis of architectural types over large and diverse culture areas will find this work of specific interest. o also provides a useful review of the problems in Navajo Graves: An Archaeological Reflection of Ethnographic Reality. ALBERT E. WARD. Ethnohistorical Report Series No. 2. Center for Anthropological Studies, Albuquerque, 1980. vii + 54 pp., illus., biblio. Paper. Abstracted by Belinda Blomberged by Belinda Blomberg Navajo Graves is a book intended to synthesize Navajo mortuary behavior. Specifically, the study addresses the possible ways in which Navajo beliefs, customs, and practices may be directly or indirectly ob ervable in the archaeological record. A preliminary classification scheme is presented which lists 40 different types of extramural and intramural Navajo remains. A discussion of select burials from northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico illustrates the extent to which Navajo interments may vary. The author has found contradictions between informant data and actual archaeological interment contexts. These examples further substantiate the value of burial data as reflections of ethnographic reality. Western Indians: Comparative Environments, Languages, and Cultures of the 172 Western American Indian Tribes. JOSEPH G. JORGENSEN. Freeman, San Francisco, 1980. xi + 673 pp., tables, maps, biblio., index. $49.95 (cloth). Abstracted by Barbara E. Cohened by Barbara E. Cohen As an effort to organize systematically the wealth of ethnographic, environmental, and comparative lexical data on the Indians of North America west of the Rockies, this book is to be commended for its breadth of scope and coverage. In presenting the data for formal comparisons, in much the same manner as Murdock's Human Relations Area Files formats its subject-index-type data, Jorgensen and his associates have provided an admirable and formidable number of systematized facts for a significantly large geographic area. Drawn heavily from Kroeber's Culture Element Survey and other trait-list surveys of the kind, as well as traditional ethnographies, a total of 172 tribes (or sample cases) were measured for 443 cultural, environmental, and lex

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