The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees - Couverture rigide

Mooney, Dr James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1934451967 ISBN 13 : 9781934451960

Editeur : A & D Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

The author, James Mooney, lived with the Southeastern Cherokee in the 1800s. During that time he was allowed to document the sacred rites of the Cherokee Shamans. Here is a fascinating and Accurate view into the mystic life of the Cherokee. No were else will you see the actual text for the Cherokees' rituals and spells including love spells, weather spells, hunting rituals, and rituals to cure diseases.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

James Mooney (February 10, 1861 – December 22, 1921) was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains. His most notable works were his ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance after Sitting Bull's death in 1890, a widespread 19th-century religious movement among various Native American culture groups, and the Cherokee: The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891), and Myths of the Cherokee (1900), all published by the US Bureau of American Ethnology. Artifacts from Mooney are in the collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and the Department of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History. Papers and photographs from Mooney are in the collections of the National Anthropological Archives, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play, etc., and, in fact, embodying almost the whole of the ancient religion of the Cherokees. The original manuscripts, now in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, were written by the shamans of the tribe, for their own use, in the Cherokee characters invented by Sikwâ´ya (Sequoyah) in 1821, and were obtained, with the explanations, either from the writers themselves or from their surviving relatives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: A & D Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1934451967
• ISBN 13: 9781934451960
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible