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, ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The sociology of religion has, by and large, treated religious experiences as personal, having in themselves little social relevance. To this ...
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 ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the Kamala Harris campaign made a stop in Window Rock, Arizona, on Saturday to speak to Navajo Nation voters as “Yiiyah Man” chants and Skoden Vote signs filled Veterans ...
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 ...
A photograph of the ancient striped walls of Canyon de Chelley in Arizona sparked a lifelong quest for Rebecca Reppert, 47. “When I was a girl of about 12,” she remembers back to her childhood in ...
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 ...