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The Nightway chant is a Navajo healing ceremonial that extends over several days and incorporates detailed songs, prayers, sandpaintings, and the use of sacred material objects, such as masks. Now available in paperback, The Nightway traces the history and genealogies of Nightway medicine men and the history of the recording and documentation of the chantway by non-Navajo observers. In this first substantive study of the ceremonial in fifty years, Faris argues that the intricate details and specific Nightway practices are essential to the restoration of harmony and, thus, healing. He makes available for the first time the complete Nightway narrative as given to Mary Wheelwright and Franc Newcomb by Hosteen Klah in 1928 and twenty-two color plates of previously unpublished sandpainting reproductions. Anthropologists, Navajo specialists, and students of comparative religion and cultural criticism will welcome this volume.

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The Nightway
A History and a History of Documentation of a Navajo Ceremonial
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James C. Faris
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
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The Nightway Hataalii
Charlie Benally**
Clarence Brown
Ronald Brown
Mike Charle
Archie Cody**
Max Goldtooth
Frank Issac
Roy Lester
Tom Lewis
Sei Naabageesz
Andy Natonabah
Norris Nez
Billy Norton**
Juan Shorthair
Fred Stevens, Jr.**
Irving Tso
Ray Winnie**
Alfred Yazzie
possessors not only of enormous knowledge,
but also of great generosity, confidence, and dignity.
To the memory of Linda Hadley
(27 May 1923-1 October 1991)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Faris, James C.
The nightway: a history and a history of documentation of a
Navajo ceremonial/James C. Faris. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8263-1564-X
1. Navajo Indians Rites and ceremonies. 2. Navajo Indians
Medicine. 3. Navajo Indians Study and teaching History.
I. Title.
E99.N3F38 1990
299'.64'089972 dc20 90-30005
CIP
1990 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved.First paperbound printing, 1994
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CONTENTS
Charts and Figures
viii
Preface
Acknowledgments
ix
Technical Notes
x
Abbreviations Used
xi
Part I
Chapter One
Introduction
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The Current Project
3
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Anthropological Approaches to Local Knowledges I: A Brief Scrutiny of Nightway Studies
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Anthropological Approaches to Local Knowledges II: Explanation and Belief
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Anthropological Approaches to Local Knowledges III: Navajo History and Nightway History
16
Chapter Two
The Nightway Recorded
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Narrative Texts
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Some Theoretical Considerations
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Comparative Notes: Relevance of Narratives to Branches
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Stricken Twins
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The Visionary
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The Floating Logs
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Ceremonies
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Specific Nightways
40
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Composite Accounts
48

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Songs and Prayers
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Verbal Practices
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Songs
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Prayers
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