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Washington Matthews : Studies of Navajo Culture, 1880-1894, This volume provides Navajo researchers with a long-needed introduction to Matthews' studies. However, its significance goes well beyond the boundaries of Navajo studies. As a contribution to the history of anthropology, it calls for reappraisal of the ro, Washington Matthews : Studies of Navajo Culture, 1880-1894
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  • Washington Matthews : Studies of Navajo Culture, 1880-1894
  • Written by author Katherine Spencer Halpern, Susan Brown McGreevy
  • Published by University of New Mexico Press, 2001/01/01
  • This volume provides Navajo researchers with a long-needed introduction to Matthews' studies. However, its significance goes well beyond the boundaries of Navajo studies. As a contribution to the history of anthropology, it calls for reappraisal of the ro
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Foreword
Preface
List of Contributors
Pt. 1 Essays
Washington Matthews: Amy Surgeon and Field Anthropologist in the American West, 1843-1905 3
Matthews' Studies of Navajo Arts 16
Washington Matthews' Contributions to the Study of Navajo Ceremonialism and Mythology 28
Washington Matthews and Navajo Music 42
Matthews and the Discovery of Navajo Drypaintings 53
Some Observations on the Ethical Integrity of Washington Matthews in Navajo Research 79
Washington Matthews' Folklore Studies 89
Washington Matthews Writes a Ballad: The Anthropologist as Poet and Literary Scholar 103
Afterword
Pt. 2 Selections from the Papers of Washington Matthews
List of Navajo Healing Dances 133
Correspondence with Powell and Cushing Concerning the Discovery of Drypaintings, October and November 1884 141
Transcriptions of Matthews' Handwritten Correspondence with Goddard about His Proposed Trip to Navajo Country 145
The Suppressed Part of the Mountain Chant (1892c) 151
Inventory of Matthews' Wax Cylinder Song Recordings 155
The Navaho Myth of the Origin of the Utes 165
Bathelmess' Account of a Night Chant 185
Natural Naturalists 193
Paper on the Clan 202
A Night with the Navajos 212
Mythic Dry-Paintings of the Navajos 221
Some Illustrations of the Connection between Myth and Ceremony 229
Some Sacred Objects of the Navajo Rites 234
A Navajo Initiation 250
Pt. 3 Washington Matthews' Bibliography
References Cited 265
Index 277
Map of Navajo History and Geography


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