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Medicine Men, Ethnic Significance, and Cultural Resource Management*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David E. Doyel*
Affiliation:
Branch of Cultural Resources, The Navajo Nation, P.O. Box 689, Window flock, AZ 86515

Abstract

Archaeologists and resource managers have recognized many different forms of site significance. While much recent discussion has focused upon research of scientific significance, other concepts, such as ethnic significance, have received little attention or have been avoided altogether. Here, the concept of ethnic significance is discussed, an example from the Navajo is presented, and some of the broader implications of the concept are considered.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1982

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Navajo Nation Papers in Anthropology Number 5.

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