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"This book is an ethnographic endeavor that explores age identity in the everyday A'uwe (Xavante) experiences at Pimentel Barbosa and Etenhiritipa villages, Central Brazil. It serves as an account of the formal and informal properties of the A'uwe life cycle that contribute to social identity, well-being, health, and environmental engagement. Welch examines the interplay between sociality and environmental relations, emphasizing the distinctiveness of the savanna environment and changing patterns in health conditions. Through environmental analyses, discussion of uses of fire, and the sensitive portrayals of individuals and events, the book develops arguments about how A'uwe understand well-being. The author uses observations from his many years living and working in A'uwe communities to create a portrait of contemporary Amazonian indigenous people and their environmental and social relations. This account is an argument for an understanding of A'uwe social organization as fundamentally plural, with age statuses and other aspects of social identity being numerous, simultaneous, interdependent, and contingent. The book aspires to be the new ethnographic go-to reference for Xavante society and cultural studies of groups in the Gê language family"--

Xavante Indians --- Xavante Indians. --- Social life and customs. --- Brazil --- Acua Indians --- Acua-Shavante Indians --- Acuen-Xavante Indians --- Akuen Indians --- Akwa Indians --- Akwe Indians --- Akwe Shavante Indians --- A'we Indians --- Chavante Acuan Indians --- Chavante-Akwẽ Indians --- Chavante Indians --- Crisca Indians --- Crixá Indians --- Eochavante Indians --- Oti Indians --- Pusciti Indians --- Puxití Indians --- Shavante-Akwẽ Indians --- Tapacuá Indians --- Xavante-Acuen Indians --- Gê Indians --- Indians of South America

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Cherokee Indians --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Five Civilized Tribes --- Indians of North America --- Iroquoian Indians --- Ani'-Yun'wiya' Indians --- Anigaduwagi Indians --- Anitsalagi Indians --- AniYunWiYa Indians --- Aniyvwiya Indians --- Keetoowah Indians --- Kituwah Indians --- Tsalagi Indians --- Tslagi Indians

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Hopi Indians --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Religion. --- Moki Indians --- Moqui Indians --- Tusayan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Shoshonean Indians

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In a rigorous and innovative study, Thomas R. Rocek examines the 150-year-old ethnohistorical and archaeological record of Navajo settlement on Black Mesa in northern Arizona. Rocek's study, the first of its kind, not only reveals a rich array of interacting factors that have helped to shape Navajo life during this period but also constructs a valuable case study in archaeological method and theory, certain to be useful to other researchers of nonurban societies. Rocek explores a neglected but major source of social flexibility in these societies. While many studies have focused on household and community-level organization, few have examined the flexible, intermediate-sized, "middle-level" cooperative units that bind small groups of households together. Middle-level units, says the author, must be recognized as important sources of social flexibility in many such cultural contexts. Futhermore, attention to middle-level units is critical for understanding household or community-level organization, because the flexibility they offer can fundamentally alter the behavior of social units of a larger or smaller scale. In examining the archaeological record of Navajo settlement, Rocek develops archaeological methods for examing multiple-household social units (variously called "outfits or "cooperating groups") through spatial analysis, investigates evidence of change in middle-level units over time, relates these changes to economic and demographic flux, and compares the Navajo case study to the broader ethnographic literature of middle-level units. Rocek finds similarities with social organization in non-unilineally organized societies, in groups that have been traditionally described as characterized by network organization, and particularly in pastoral societies. The results of Rocek's study offer a new perspective on variability in Navajo social organization while suggesting general patterns of the response of social groups to change. Rocek's work will be of significant interest not only to those with a professional interest in Navajo history and culture, but also, for its methodological insights, to a far broader range of archaeologists, social anthropologists, ethnohistorians, ethnoarchaeologists, historians, cultural geographers, and political scientists.

Navajo Indians --- Navajo Indians. --- Antiquities. --- Diné Indians (Navajo) --- Navaho Indians --- Athapascan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Archaeology

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The Havasupai Indians have lived for centuries in Cataract Canyon, and even came to be confined there by treaty. When anthopologist Alfred F. Whiting set out to study the Havasupai in the early 1940s, he found a culture that in many aspect remained unchanged. In Havasupai Habitat editors Weber and Seaman have distilled Whiting's ethnographic research. Part I comprises ten thematic chapters dealing with various aspects of culture, such as hunting and gathering, child care, housing, and religion. Part II offers a systematic presentation of Havasupai knowledge of weather and astronomy, minerals, animals, and plants; and for each item listed, Whiting has provided scientific and common English terminology, phonetic spelling, and a description of usage. Published in 1985, Havasupai Habitat offers a rich ethnography on lifeways of the Havasupai people.

Havasupai Indians. --- Havasupai (Indiens) --- Supai Indians --- Indians of North America --- Yuman Indians --- Society & culture: general