Navajo term for "anthropologist"?

[D Roy Mitchel IV]

Reminds me of what Vine DeLoria had to say in _Custer Died for your Sins_.
Roy Mithell.

--- On Tue, 4/28/09, James Crippen <jcrippen at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: James Crippen <jcrippen at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Navajo term for "anthropologist"?
> To: ATHAPBASCKAN-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 12:00 PM
> There's a standard joke that a Navajo
> nuclear family consists of a
> mother, father, children, and an anthropologist. I don't
> know when
> this started but it probably comes from around Clyde
> Kluckhohn's era.
> Related to this, rumor has it that Navajo has a kinship
> term for
> anthropologists, because they're exposed to so many. Can
> anyone
> confirm or refute this? If true, what's the term?
> 
> Thanks,
> James
>