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Article: General.(Spider Woman walks this land: traditional cultural properties and the Navajo nation)(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- December 1, 2003
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General
CARMEAN, KELLI. Spider Woman walks this land: traditional cultural properties and the Navajo nation. xx, 173 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Altamira Press, 2002. [pounds sterling]18.95 (paper)
Written for the general reader and undergraduate students, this book provides both a brief overview of Navajo life today and a careful exposition of how and why cultural preservation efforts are extended to tribal peoples, using the Navajos as a prime example. The prologue and chapters 1 to 3 and 7 are enlivened with excerpts from the author's field journal, while a selection of Laura Gilpin's excellent photographs of mid-twentieth-century ...