Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty : Navajos, Hózhó, and Track Work / / Jay Youngdahl
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Youngdahl Jay
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| Titolo: |
Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty : Navajos, Hózhó, and Track Work / / Jay Youngdahl
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| Pubblicazione: | Logan, UT : , : Utah State University Press, , 2011 |
| ©2011 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 979.1004/9726 |
| 979.10049726 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Railroads - Southwest, New - Employees - History |
| Railroad construction workers - Southwest, New - History | |
| Navajo Indians - Religion | |
| Navajo Indians - Social conditions | |
| Navajo Indians - Employment | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southwest, New Politics and government |
| Southwest, New Race relations | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; One: Life on the Tracks; Two: Religion on the Rez; Three: A Visit with a Medicine Man; Four: Adversaries and Advocates; Five: How Did Navajo Men Come to Work for the Railroads?; Six: Railroads, Trading Posts, and a Fatal Challenge to the RRB's System; Seven: In the Workers' Words; Eight: Anchoring and Adaptability, Fixed yet Fluid; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives.Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in divinity from Harvard, has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of ha |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Working on the railroad, walking in beauty |
| ISBN: | 1-60732-717-1 |
| 1-283-34148-4 | |
| 9786613341488 | |
| 0-87421-854-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910166654703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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