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The Pentecostal Move At Sia Pueblo: Individual Deviation And Group Reintergration As A Result Of Peer Pressure, Jennifer Chatfield

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The present study concerns itself with the attempt of certain persons to live individualistically in contrast to the accepted plan of life in Sia pueblo, and to change portions of their native culture to suit their newly acquired concepts.

The processes of culture change are of fundamental interest to the anthropologists. And as knowledge concerning the processes has increased, interest in them has branched out and new methods of approach to their study have been realized. These methods are not essentially one better than the other, nor even one more fruitful than another, but they vary in the specificity to …

A Study Of Pueblo Indian Textile Design Of The Pre-Columbian Period, Maud Gilchrist Summers

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It was the purpose of this study, to make a survey of the pre-Columbian textile arts of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest, and thereby relate developments of processes and uses of materials in different areas and through a sequence of periods; and to present the types of designs created by the weaving and painting of textiles.

A Study Of Culture Resistance: The Veterans Of World War Ii At Zuni Pueblo, John Joseph Adair

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How does a pueblo resist the values, ideas, and habits of contemporary Western culture which are pressing in on it from all sides? This is the problem in its broadest aspect which will be examined in this dissertation.

Specifically I shall examine the way in which the Zuni veterans of World War II met with a buffer of resistance when they returned to the pueblo from war service, bringing with them non-pueblo values, ideas, and habits which they had acquired while away from home.

A Tentative Description And Classification Of Tewa Verb Structure, Edward Dozier

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This paper presents only a portion of an exhaustive study of the verb structure in process. The purpose here is to illustrate the method of analysis, to describe significant features briefly, and to group Tewa verbs into a few distinctive classes. Tewa verb structures have been analyzed carefully and their basic elements isolated. The most important feature of verb constructions, the verb theme, has been exposed in this manner. In terms of the verb theme Tewa verbs may be divided into several categories which have been illustrated with examples in Chapter V.