Navaho Witchcraft (Navajo Witchcraft)

288 Pages·11.539 MB·English

by  Clyde Kluckhohn

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NAVAHO WITCHCRAFT
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NAYAHO WITCHCRAFT
CLYDE KLUCKHOHN
BEACON PRESS BOSTON
COPYRIGHT, 1944 BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Published by arrangement with the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University
Library of Congress catalog card number: 62-13533
Printed in the United States of America
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Navaho Witchcraft was first published in 1944, in a limited
edition of folio pages issued by the Peabody Museum of Harvard
University. The publishers are honored to republish this classic
monograph in tribute to the late Professor Kluckhohn and to his
service to man’s understanding of himself.
The changes and additions resulting from publication in
book form have been kept to a minimum. Parenthetical cross
references in the text have been made into footnotes. The foot¬
notes have been numbered separately in each section and moved
from the text to a section following the appendices. With this
exception, the sequence of materials is exactly that of the origi¬
nal edition.
No material present in the original has been omitted from
this edition. A photo facsimile of a newspaper page, which ap¬
peared as excerpt 2333 in Appendix IX, has been deleted, but
the complete text of the two articles on the newspaper page has
been included in the present footnote number 26 of Appendix IX.
The words “paper” and “monograph” referring to this work itself
have been changed to read “study” or “book.” No other change
has been made in the original words and sentences in the text,
the appendices or the footnotes.
Two additions have been made in the introductory pages
of this edition. D. Herbert Landar of Los Angeles State College
in California has kindly provided a brief “Key to the Phonetic
Spelling of Navaho Words,” which should be helpful to general
readers in interpreting the phonetic symbols, all of which have
been retained. The other addition is the obituary article about
Clyde Kluckhohn by Professors Talcott Parsons and Evon Z. Vogt
which appeared in the American Anthropologist, Vol. 64, No. 1,
February 1962.
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The publishers wish to express their gratitude to Professors
Talcott Parsons and Evon Z. Vogt and the editors of the Amer¬
ican Anthropologist for permission to publish their article in this
edition. The publishers also extend their thanks to the Peabody
Museum of Harvard University, and its director, Dr. Joseph
O. Brew, for cooperation and advice in this undertaking.