Navajo Political Economy before Fort Sumner

Kelley, Klara B.

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“…In her second article, "Navajo Political Economy before Fort S m e r , " Kelley recreates Navajo social organization around 1850. 16 In this essay, she cites both Mam and Engels in a general way. She contends that the Navajo were originally classless and egalitarian, until the Santa Fe trade created two class divisions: ricos and pobres.…”

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Anthropology and History: Can the Two Sister Disciplines Communicate?

Lyon¹

1994

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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The writer of Native American history faces many vexing problems: the lack of aboriginal documentary or published sources; the reliance on subjective, oral Indian testimony; the need for internal tribal histories; and the investigation of non-Western aboriginal cultures, which is refractory to the methods and concepts of the modern social scientist.Among the problems of writing Indian history is the lack of communication between historian and anthropologist. Although ethnohistory developed as a separate entity in the 1950s, history and anthropology have not successfully merged. As Reginald Horsman has pointed out, the two have divergent interests in the writing of Native American history.' These divergent interests involve different methodologies and emphases. Historians write about (recent) Anglo-Indian contacts and federal Indian policy; anthropologists write of precontact existence. Historians approach

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Anthropology and History: Can the Two Sister Disciplines Communicate?

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1994

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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“…In most instances, it is the subsistence base or particular suite of crops or game that occasions the analogy. This is clearly not the case for Lamphere who turns to the Navajo as exemplars for value systems of ' traditional Southwestern Native Americans' (p. 384), despite the fact that Navajo economy and, it has been argued, their social hierarchies (Kelley 1980) Conference participants are extremely well versed in southwestern archaeology but it is likely that many readers of this volume will be far less so. Hence, there should be some warnings about the ways in which data are presented and evaluated and which data are included and discussed.…”

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