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The Fifth World of Enoch Maloney

其他書名	Portrait of a Navaho
出版	Random House, 1970
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4ltwAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The fifth world of Enoch Maloney is a young anthropologist's moving account of a sojourn, and a friendship, on an enormous Navaho reservation in Arizona-New Mexico, roughly the size of West Virginia, where about 115,000 Navahos eke out an existence on what is euphemistically called semiarid land. It is, as well, a disturbing, and to some it will be surprising, account of the way of life of the reservation Indian in North America. Proportionately the Navaho are one of the fastest-growing populations in the world. Therefore their land, poor as it is--and increased only by four times while the population has grown by between ten and twelve times since 1868--is unable to support them. A large percentage of the Navaho are living at a low subsistence level, scratching a living from the land or apathetically awaiting the monthly welfare check.--From jacket flap