Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 42, No. 3, Approaches to Culture and Society (Autumn, 1986), pp. 447-465 (19 pages) Following Leach's emphasis (1966) on the communicative aspects of ritual, ...

Leo W. Banks is a freelance writer based in Tucson, Ariz. The thick mud of a Navajo Reservation back road has gotten the better of Father Cormac Antram’s Chevy Blazer. We’re stuck 10 miles from the ...

Color UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Dyal animates Navajo patterns overlayed on a photograph of an Arizona mesa, accompanied by a recording of ...

In a big flat sandbox floored with fine, clean sand, on the third floor of Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, squatted two full-blooded Navajo medicine men. The elder, Charley Turquoise, sported a ...

"Navajo Memoirs" is affecting, exasperating, and, at times, ingenious. Actor-writer Mellow Moonshine England (his given name) packages his hour-long monologue alternately as a Navajo vision-quest and ...