Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): Men and Masculinities from Matricultural Perspectives
Book Reviews

Book Review: Walter Dyk: Son of Old Man Hat  A Navajo Autobiography

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  • Marie-Françoise Guédon
Marie-Françoise Guédon
University of Ottawa
Dust cover and book of Dyk's Son of Old Man Hat; the colour is a dusty rose with a pencil sketch of a Navajo hogan. A small trail of smoke is coming out the smokehole and a few horses graze round back.

Published 2025-12-11

Keywords

  • book review,
  • Navajo,
  • anthropology,
  • Edward Sapir,
  • ethnography,
  • matriculture
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How to Cite

Book Review: Walter Dyk: Son of Old Man Hat  A Navajo Autobiography. (2025). Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies, 4(2), 96-104. https://doi.org/10.60676/5eckhn19

Abstract

Marie-Françoise Guédon reviews Walter Dyk's 1938 classic ethnographic recording, Son of Old Man Hat  A Navajo Autobiography.

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References

  1. Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography, recorded by Walter Dyk, foreword by Edward Sapir, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1938 (Second Bison Book printing 1968)