FOREWORD 



This paper was the last ethnographic writing on the Ramah 

 Navaho by the late Clyde Kluckhohn before his death in 1960. 

 The original version was prepared as a summary of Ramah Navaho 

 culture for a projected final report on "The Comparative Study of 

 Values in Five Cultures" project which undertook field research in 

 the Ramah area between 1949 and 1955 and was sponsored by the 

 Peabody Museum and Laboratory of Social Relations at Harvard 

 University with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The plans 

 for the report on this project have now changed and do not include 

 the various ethnographic summaries that were prepared, but instead 

 focus upon a comparative treatment of various institutions in relation 

 to value systems in the five cultures. Since this paper contains a 

 brief summary of published ethnographic data on Ramah Navaho 

 culture, as well as new materials not heretofore available, written by 

 an eminent scholar who devoted much of his professional career to 

 the study of the Navaho, it is most appropriate for it to appear (with 

 slight revisions for which I am responsible) in the Anthropological 

 Papers series of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



EvoN Z. VOGT 

 Cambridge, Mass. 

 July 1964 



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