NAVAJO WORLDVIEW, CULTURE, HISTORY, LANGUAGE, DINETAH
New BOOK Release in 2 Editions
by Jennifer Kitchell
and Harry Walters
ISBN 9798988694526 PAPERBACK EDITION ~ Black & White IMAGES 435 pages
ISBN 9798988694502 HARDCOVER EDITION ~ COLOR IMAGES 435 pages
AUTHOR
Jennifer Kitchell, a writer and former educator, met Harry Walters, a Navajo and also an educator at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, more than 20 years ago.
A collaboration began, coming to completion with the publishing of this book.
AUTHOR
Harry Walters served as the Director of the Hatathli Museum at the Navajo Diné College for 35 years, where he also taught Navajo History, Navajo Oral History, and Navajo Culture.
Harry Walters was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Diné College, as a person ‘who helped crystallize the concept of Navajo philosophy within academia’.
THIS LIBERALLY
ILLUSTRATED
EXPLORATION OF THE
NAVAJO WORLDVIEW
FIELDS A WIDE
BREADTH OF TOPICS:
* the remarkably complex architecture of the Navajo language,
*the long coalescing history of its people bolstered by the evidence of genetics,
*the unique healing system that focuses on a reordering of the individual in need,
*the extensive Navajo imagery within an earlier ancestral area known as the Dinétah,
*a worldview focused on mountains,
*the Western misrepresentation of the female,
*the use of language to create a reality,
*the overarching identification with an earthly life of beauty,
and much more . . .
