Table of Contents

LIST OF TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART 1: BACKGROUND
1. Introduction
2. Historical Background
PART 2: THE MYTHS
3. The Underworlds
4. The Emergence and the Present World
5. Tricksters North and South
6. Two Traditions
PART 3: THE VERITIES
7. The Creation
8. Good and Evil, Order and Chaos
9. Men, Women, and Men-Women
10. Envoy
APPENDIX: CLASSIFICATION OF NAVAJO SINGS ACCORDING TO LELAND WYMAN AND CLYDE KLUCKHOHN
REFERENCES
 

About the Author

Jerrold E. Levy is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His earlier books include Orayvi Revisited: Social Stratification in an "Egalitarian" Society (1992), and Drinking Careers: A 25-Year Study of Three Navajo Populations (with Stephen J. Kunitz, 1994).