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Navaho Witchcraft

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Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft is a significant ethnographic study of the Navajo people. The work explores the complex belief systems surrounding witchcraft within Navajo culture. It delves into how witchcraft was perceived as a force that could cause harm and how this belief influenced social dynamics and rituals. Kluckhohn's research highlights the importance of understanding these beliefs within their cultural context, emphasizing that for the Navajo, witchcraft was a serious matter with real-world implications for health, social harmony, and the balance of the universe.12

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  1. Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn
  2. Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest - Belief and aesthetic systems

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