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DRS. A. H. and D. C. LEIGHTON are deeply concerned that the United States may be truly prepared to play the great part which she inevitably must in building international peace, and they see clearly that this preparation must begin at home. "We cannot hope to be on proper terms with Russians, Argentinians, Peruvians, British and Chinese, if we are unable to understand the cultural groups who are much more easily within the range of our comprehension."By a happy chance, the Navaho Indians, whose reservation lies in the States of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, came to their attention, and they decided to live and work among them, and try to see things through Navaho eyes. This book is a measure of their success, and is a notable contribution to the sympathetic understanding and fair treatment of the Indian. "It was obvious that we could not study all the world, but we could study the Navahos,"and they did so in the hope that the principles which they learnt might have an application to a much wider circle. It is natural, in a book written by physicians, that much space should be devoted to medicine, but this, not less than the remainder of the book, will be of value to the anthropologist and of interest to the general reader.
The Navaho Door
An Introduction to Navaho Life. By Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton. Pp. xviii + 149 + 36 plates. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1944.) 22s. 6d. net.
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BUSHNELL, G. The Navaho Door. Nature 155, 620 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155620a0
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