Reading log.

Finished this last weeek: The Navaho, a straightforward history and anthropology published in 1st edition in the 1950's. One of the amusing bits in the book is several paragraphs on how a white person who works with Navajos can avoid various culture clashes with them, with the clear subtext that the paragraph is meant for someone who has a supervisory role with some Navajos. I remember in Los Alamos talking to people who were in the Marshall Islands during the nuclear tests, and how they would use the word "natives" in the kind of way you only expect from movie characters in costume dramas about the British Empire. Those mindsets are still within living memory. And the authors of The Navaho were among the poeple who helped us leave that mindset.