1st Edition

Kinship, Capitalism, Change The Informal Economy of the Navajo, 1868-1995

By Michael J. Francisconi Copyright 1998
    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1998. Part of the Native Americans Interdisciplinary Perspectives series, this volume looks at the informal economy of the Navajo from 1868 to 1995. In this study Dine is used in place of Navajo when referring to the people. Since 1868 three major revolutions have integrated the Dine into the world capitalist system: the establishment of military peace, resulting in political control by the U.S. Government, which then guaranteed the establishment of trading posts; the stock reduction of the 1930's, which resulted in money becoming central to economic life; and the importation of highly capital-intensive extractive industries onto the Navajo Reservation.

    Chapter 1 Walking in Two Worlds; Chapter 2 Theoretical Concepts and Issues of the Current Economic Crisis and People in the Periphery; Chapter 3 Historical Perspective of the Navajo Economy; Chapter 4 Articulation and Resistance; Chapter 5 Conclusions; Appendix A Interviews; Appendix B Notes on Methodology and Theory; Appendix C Tables; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index;

    Biography

    Michael J. Francisconi