Navajo Trading : The End of an Era,9780826323217

Navajo Trading : The End of an Era

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ISBN13: 9780826323217
ISBN10: 0826323219
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary

This overview is the first to examine trading in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when changes in both Navajo and white cultures led to the investigation of trading practices by the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in the demise of most traditional trading posts.

Author Biography

Willow Roberts Powers has her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico. She has taught at UNM and at the University of Iowa. She lives in Santa Fe

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
x
Acknowledgments xii
Part I: The Way Trading Was
Traders
3(20)
Navajos
23(20)
The Way Trading Was
43(19)
Trading in Arts and Crafts
62(39)
The War Years on the Reservation
101(24)
Part II: The End of an Era
Cash Money
125(24)
Radical Change on the Reservation
149(24)
Target---Traders
173(21)
The Dust Settles
194(22)
Trading at the End of the Twentieth Century
216(20)
A Few Final Words
236(13)
Notes 249(15)
List of Interviews 264(3)
Bibliography 267(5)
Index 272

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