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Language and Art in the Navajo Universe
Language: en
Pages: 44
Authors: Gary Witherspoon
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 1977 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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A study of Navajo culture with a view to its philosophical underpinnings examines the dynamism and adaptability of the Navajo language, and the enduring relevan
Dynamic Symmetry and Holistic Asymmetry in Navajo and Western Art and Cosmology
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Gary Witherspoon
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

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Explores the relationship between the cultural roots of the Navajo and the aesthetic forms and styles in their sandpainting, weaving, and silverwork. Finds in t
The Invention of the American Desert
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Lyle Massey
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-02 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Introduction / Lyle Massey and James Nisbet -- Desolate dreams / Joseph Masco -- Air, wind, breath, life : desertification and Will Wilson's AIR (Auto-Immune Re
Navajo Kinship and Marriage
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Gary Witherspoon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Foreword David M. Schneider Preface 1: Kinship as a Cultural System 2: Mother and Child and the Nature of Kinship 3: Marriage and the Nature of Affinity 4: Fath
An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language
Language: en
Pages: 538
Authors: Franciscan Saint Michaels, Arizona
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-10 - Publisher: CreateSpace

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First published in 1910, An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navajo Language is still the standard and most complete work of traditional Navajo life, social customs