PEP | Article - Some Sex Beliefs and Practices in a Navaho Community: By Flora L. Bailey. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Volume XL, No. 2. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum, 1950. 108 pp.

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Abstract

Dr. Bailey studies primarily the reproductive cycle, and more or less ignores many sexual practices. The extensive bibliography, devoted exclusively to works on the Navaho, contains no reference to Hill's study of Navaho homosexuality, though Hill's other works and unpublished manuscripts are copiously quoted. The work includes not merely relevant material extracted from published data, but, above all, both Dr. Bailey's own field data and those of the other members of the magnificent Ramah project.

Tremendous stress has been placed on reliability and on direct quotations as a means of documentation. Time and again a

PEP | Article - Some Sex Beliefs and Practices in a Navaho Community: By Flora L. Bailey. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Volume XL, No. 2. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum, 1950. 108 pp. - Devereux, George