Navajo architecture : forms, history, distributions / Stephen C. Jett and Virginia E. Spencer.
Material type: TextPublication details: Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, ©1981.Description: xix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmISBN:- 0816506884
- 9780816506880
- 0816507236
- 9780816507238
- E99.N3 J39
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Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266).
Introduction -- Navajo dwellings: general characteristics -- Classification of Navajo dwellings -- Origins, evolutions, and forms of temporary and summer dwellings -- Hogan origins, evolutions, and forms -- Adoption of houses -- Navajo house origins, evolutions, and forms -- Roof forms -- Subsistence-activity structures -- Food-processing and storage structures -- Ceremonial and recreational structures -- Structures relating to travel, defense, and death -- Areal and temporal distributuions and dwelling types -- Navajo architecture and acculturation.