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Shonto Revisited: Measures of Social and Economic Change in a Navajo Community, 1955–1971
Author(s) -
ADAMS WILLIAM Y.,
RUFFING LORRAINE T.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1977.79.1.02a00060
Subject(s) - navajo , reservation , modernization theory , social change , geography , history , political science , socioeconomics , economic growth , sociology , economics , law , philosophy , linguistics
Between 1954 and 1956 the senior author of this article carried out a detailed social and economic study of the community of Shonto, situated in what was then a particularly remote corner of the Navajo Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. In 1972 the junior author returned to do a restudy of the same community. A comparison of the data obtained in the two studies provides unique measures of social and economic change, and also of social and economic persistence, during a period of unprecedented growth and modernization of the Navajo Reservation . [social change, economic change, Navajo]