Navajo Political Process

Description

Author: Williams, Aubrey W., Jr. (1916?-1999)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press

Pub Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: 4 copies.  Copy 1: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  One small black dot above title on title page.  Some wear to corners and edges.  Upper corners bumped.  Wear to head and foot of spine.  Includes one fold-out map of the Navajo Reservation.  Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable.  Copy 2: Fair.  Binding tight, but cocked.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Upper corners bumped.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable.Some edge and corner wear.  Copy 3:  Fair.  Binding tight, but slightly cocked.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Lower corners bumped. Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Light edge and corner wear.  Copy 4 (LC):  Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  All corners bumped.  Wear to head and foot of spine.  Some scuffing to front and rear boards.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Copy 5 (LC): Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name in ink on upper corner ffep.  Upper corners bumped.  Some scuffing to front board and spine.  Without dust jacket, as issued.

Notes: Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology Volume 9.  The current system of “chapter houses” came into being in 1927, when John G. Hunter, the Superintendent of the Leupp Agency (southwest of the Hopi Reservation),  established these community meetings.  According to the author, “The contemporary culture of the Navajo Indians …includes a local political structure that bears striking resemblance to the New England town meeting of the 17th and 18th centuries.” (page 1)