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• catalog abstract ""Placenames reveal how particular cultures perceive and classify their environments: what they see as significant - economically, religiously, and so forth - about how they differentiate particular places from space in general. In addition to comprising a distinct semantic domain, to the extent that the reasons for their individual existences can be discovered, placenames may also convey important information concerning cultural beliefs and values, folklore, ethnography, economics, and history. Placenames also function as mnemonic devices that may facilitate communication, travel, resource-finding, and mythological memory, and as such are highly charged linguistic symbols." "Cultural geographer Stephen C. Jett has collected and analyzed over 250 Navajo placenames from Arizona's spectacular Canyon de Chelly system, discovering what they mean and why and identifying frequencies of allusions in these names as well as in the stories, mythical and historical, that involve these named places and imbue them with meaning. Comparisons are made with both Euroamerican placenaming practice - very different - and that of other North American Athapaskan-speakers - very similar. Here too, Professor Jett inventories the scores of trails that Navajos have built and used in the canyons and describes their physical features and uses."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12332234.
• catalog coverage "Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.) Description and travel.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Cultural geographer Stephen C. Jett has collected and analyzed over 250 Navajo placenames from Arizona's spectacular Canyon de Chelly system, discovering what they mean and why and identifying frequencies of allusions in these names as well as in the stories, mythical and historical, that involve these named places and imbue them with meaning. Comparisons are made with both Euroamerican placenaming practice - very different - and that of other North American Athapaskan-speakers - very similar. Here too, Professor Jett inventories the scores of trails that Navajos have built and used in the canyons and describes their physical features and uses."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""Placenames reveal how particular cultures perceive and classify their environments: what they see as significant - economically, religiously, and so forth - about how they differentiate particular places from space in general. In addition to comprising a distinct semantic domain, to the extent that the reasons for their individual existences can be discovered, placenames may also convey important information concerning cultural beliefs and values, folklore, ethnography, economics, and history. Placenames also function as mnemonic devices that may facilitate communication, travel, resource-finding, and mythological memory, and as such are highly charged linguistic symbols."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-238) and indexes.".
• catalog description "pt. I. Introduction to Navajo Placenames and Trails. 1. Canyon de Chelly, the Navajo, and Their Trails. 2. Navajo Placenames and Trails in the Canyons: Background to the Project. 3. In the Field with Navajo Consultants -- pt. II. Physical Aspects of Trails. 4. Route-Surface Modifications. 5. Trail Markers and Trail Shrines -- pt. III. Inventory of Placenames and Trails of the Canyon de Chelly System. 6. Introduction to the Inventory. 7. Inventory of Placenames and Trails. 8. Maps -- pt. IV. Findings. 9. Analysis of the Placenames. 10. Concluding Observations.".
• catalog extent "xxiv, 254 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Navajo placenames and trails of the Canyon de Chelly system, Arizona.".
• catalog identifier "0820442763 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Navajo placenames and trails of the Canyon de Chelly system, Arizona.".
• catalog isPartOf "American Indian studies ; v. 12.".
• catalog isPartOf "American Indian studies ; vol. 12".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
• catalog relation "Navajo placenames and trails of the Canyon de Chelly system, Arizona.".
• catalog spatial "Arizona Chelly, Canyon de.".
• catalog spatial "Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.) Description and travel.".
• catalog subject "917.91/37 21".
• catalog subject "E99.N3 J396 2001".
• catalog subject "Indian trails Arizona Chelly, Canyon de.".
• catalog subject "Names, Geographical Arizona Chelly, Canyon de.".
• catalog subject "Names, Navajo Arizona Chelly, Canyon de.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Introduction to Navajo Placenames and Trails. 1. Canyon de Chelly, the Navajo, and Their Trails. 2. Navajo Placenames and Trails in the Canyons: Background to the Project. 3. In the Field with Navajo Consultants -- pt. II. Physical Aspects of Trails. 4. Route-Surface Modifications. 5. Trail Markers and Trail Shrines -- pt. III. Inventory of Placenames and Trails of the Canyon de Chelly System. 6. Introduction to the Inventory. 7. Inventory of Placenames and Trails. 8. Maps -- pt. IV. Findings. 9. Analysis of the Placenames. 10. Concluding Observations.".
• catalog title "Navajo placenames and trails of the Canyon de Chelly system, Arizona / Stephen C. Jett.".
• catalog type "text".