ANTH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sauna, Cornmeal, Hogun
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Traditional navajo family in utah, the naboyas. Livestock, sheep, owned land, are important, earth is the mother of everyone. Husband and wife of different clans, live in one place for fall and winter, then another for summer and another for spring. Takes place on a reservation, the transhumance provides continuous grazing for animals. Sheep part of navajo life since 1600s, if they prosper sign of a families well being, individually owned but cared for collectively. Corn still big subsistence associated with dawn and living well", also interdependence on the earth given corn can no longer grow without human help. Navajo society is matrilineal, passed to mothers children. Knowledge of weaving passed down matrilineally also. Build a sweat house, tepee shaped, dirt covered, logs, hot, heat stones to heat it, and keep heat in, used for ritual purposes. Sing the universe into being, everything about the world were organized and given life in songs, reenacted in the sweathouse.
