Navajo Social Organization

Social and cultural factors in pregnancy complications among Navajo women.

A population of 968 pregnant Navajo women was followed in a prospective study conducted from 1980 to 1983 at the Indian Health Service Hospitals in Gallup and Crownpoint, New Mexico. The purpose of the study was to examine social and cultural influences on obstetric and neonatal complications. The extent of traditional cultural practices and the availability of social support were ascertained i...

Comparison of Corriedale x Navajo and Romney x Navajo crosses.

Hierarchy in social organization

We 4nd that area and population distributions of nations follow an inverse power-law, as is known for cities, but with a di7erent exponent. To interpret this result, we develop a growth model based on the geometrical properties of partitioning of the plane. The substantial agreement between the model and the actual nation distributions motivates the hypothesis that the distribution of aggregate...

Navajo Windtalkers

Using Navajo for cryptography is a very powerful tool due to the complex nature of the language. Up until the 1930’s The Navajo Languages had remained unwritten. It was not until 1939 that a standardized alphabet was created. The language also did not have any symbols. In Navajo, only four vowels exist: A, E, I, O, but each of these can have up to 10 different intonations. A word could change i...

Change and Social Organization

Organizations continually adapt to external organizational imperatives such as technology, population, knowledge and values. The increasing rate and intensity of these imperatives necessitates fhanges in services irrespective of the organization's formal intentions to change. It is suggested that organizational characteristics amenable to handling change do not occur randomly. Six organizationa...