A Navajo Bringing–Home Ceremony: The Claus Chee Sonny Version of Deerway Ajiłee

Museum of Northern Arizona Press, 1978. 210 pp., paperback Very Good + Cover a bit used but still in good shape. Very clean pages,  like never read. Binding is tight. "Ajiłee" is the name of an extinct Navajo five-night healing ceremonial. In ethnological literature it has been referred to variously as  Prostitutionway or Excessway. "Ajiłee" is also a word which refers to a variety of symptoms of general craziness, made manifest in sexual passion, prostitution, divorce, wildness, shyness, disorientation, hallucination, intoxication, restlessness, roaming, and Anglo-American  mobility. The Deerway version of ajilee, the subject matter of this book, represents both a surviving portion of and a reaction against the now extinct and defamed five-night ceremonial. In the history of Navajo thought it stands as a valuable document, reflecting the time when roaming hunters and herders were forced to become sedentary. There are now on record four ajilee myths: one by Pepper (1908, recorded in 19