Navajo Lifeways: Contemporary Issues, Ancient Knowledge

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University of Oklahoma Press, 2001 - 265 páginas

"I think what is always really amazing to me is that Navajo are never amazed by anything that happens. Because it is like in a lot of our stories they are already there."--Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller

During the final decade of the twentieth century, Navajo people had to confront a number of challenges, from unexplained illness, the effects of uranium mining, and problem drinking to threats to their land rights and spirituality. Yet no matter how alarming these issues, Navajo people made sense of them by drawing guidance from what they regarded as their charter for life, their origin stories.

Through extensive interviews, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz allows Navajo to speak for themselves on the ways they find to respond to crises and chronic issues. In capturing what Navajo say and think about themselves, Schwarz presents this southwestern people's perceptions, values, and sense of place in the world.

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Introduction
3
Chapter One The Mystery Illness of 1993
22
Chapter Two Navajo Relocation 19741999
43
Chapter Three The Holy Visit of 1996
70
Chapter Four Snakes in the Ladies Room
111
Chapter Five Activism through Emotional Expression
134
Chapter Six Problem Drinking Social Death
152
Chapter Seven Final Thoughts
181
Glossary
231
Index
257
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Maureen Trudelle Schwarz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

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