Background
Jett, Stephen Clinton was born on October 12, 1938 in Cleveland. Son of Richard Scudder Jett and Miriam Ida (Horn) Jett Greene.
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Navajo architecture: Forms, history, distributions
(Book by Stephen C Jett, Virginia E. Sencer)
Book by Stephen C Jett, Virginia E. Sencer
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Navajo architecture: Forms, history, distributions by Stephen C Jett, Virginia E. Sencer (1981) Hardcover
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Navajo Placenames and Trails of the Canyon de Chelly System, Arizona
(Placenames reveal how particular cultures perceive and cl...)
Placenames reveal how particular cultures perceive and classify their environments: what they see as significant - economically, religiously, and so forth - about how they differentiate particular places from space in general. In addition to comprising a distinct semantic domain, to the extent that the reasons for their individual existences can be discovered, placenames may also convey important information concerning cultural beliefs and values, folklore, ethnography, economics, and history. Placenames also function as mnemonic devices that may facilitate communication, travel, resource-finding, and mythological memory, and as such are highly charged linguistic symbols. Cultural geographer Stephen C. Jett has collected and analyzed over 250 Navajo placenames from Arizona’s spectacular Canyon de Chelly system, discovering what they mean and why and identifying frequencies of allusions in these names as well as in the stories, mythical and historical, that involve these named places and imbue them with meaning. Comparisons are made with both Euroamerican placenaming practice - very different - and that of other North American Athapaskan-speakers - very similar. Here too, Professor Jett inventories the scores of trails that Navajos have built and used in the canyons and describes their physical features and uses.
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House of Three Turkeys: Anasazi Redoubt
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Navajo Wildlands
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- Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions (Complete explication of hogan and house forms, root forms...)
- Navajo wildlands;: "as long as the rivers shall run." (A Sierra Club/Ballantine book)
- House of Three Turkeys: Anasazi Redoubt by Stephen C. Jett (1977-06-03)
- Tourism in the Navajo Country: Resources and Planning (Navajoland Publications)
Stephen Clinton Jett
Edit Profileresearcher geography and textiles educator
Education
AB, Princeton University, 1960. Postgraduate, University Arizona, 1962—1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1964.
Career
Instructor geography Ohio State University, Columbus, 1963-1964. Assistant professor geography University California, Davis, 1964-1972, associate professor, 1972-1979, professor, 1979—2000, professor textiles and clothing, 1996—2000, professor emeritus geography, textiles and clothing, since 2000, chairman geography department, 1978-1982, 87-89.
Achievements
Works
book
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Navajo Placenames and Trails of the Canyon de Chelly System, Arizona
(Placenames reveal how particular cultures perceive and cl...)
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Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions
( Complete explication of hogan and house forms, root for...)
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Navajo architecture: Forms, history, distributions
(Book by Stephen C Jett, Virginia E. Sencer)
- Navajo architecture: Forms, history, distributions by Stephen C Jett, Virginia E. Sencer (1981) Hardcover
- Navajo wildlands;: "as long as the rivers shall run." (A Sierra Club/Ballantine book)
- House of Three Turkeys: Anasazi Redoubt by Stephen C. Jett (1977-06-03)
- Tourism in the Navajo Country: Resources and Planning (Navajoland Publications)
- House of Three Turkeys: Anasazi Redoubt
- Navajo Wildlands
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Navajo Placenames and Trails of the Canyon de Chelly System, Arizona
Membership
Member History and Landmarks Commission, Davis, 1969-1973. Vice chairman General Plan Noise Element Study Committee, Davis, 1974-1976, chairman ad hoc citizens noise committee, 1997-1998. Member executive council University Farms Unit Number 1 Neighborhood Association, Davis, 1987-1990.
Fellow: Explorers Club. Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Friends Washington County Public Library. (vice president since 2009), Foundation Research Ancient Maritime Explorations (board directors since 2002, treasurer since 2006), Institute for Study of America Cultures (board directors since 1996), Epigraphic Society since 1996, (vice president since 2005), Society of America Archaeology, Association American Geographers (chair American Indian specialty group 1989-1991).
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Married Mary Frances Manak, August 7, 1971 (divorced 1977). 1 child, Jennifer Frances Jett. Married Lisa Sue Roberts, June 17, 1995.
