Navaho Witchcraft
Kluckhohn, Clyde. Beacon Press, 1972. In the early 20th century, Beacon Press rebranded from a Unitarian outreach organ to focus on books that would 'open the mind . . . where open-mindedness never existed', leading them to publish seminal titles by James Baldwin, Herbert Marcuse, and pioneering anthropologist Kluckhohn, whose investigation into Navajo views of witchcraft—defined as 'the influencing of events by supernatural techniques that are socially disapproved'—included such colloquial and ethically questionable methods as interviewing a drunk man encountered on the side of the road.
Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of moderate rubbing and edge-wear to the covers. 254 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible. DR.
