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Raymond D. Fogelson was a luminary theoretician in the interdisciplinary field of ethnohistory who advocated for Indigenous-centered theory and ethnographic writing in the field of Cherokee studies and ethnohistory. Fogelson's unique methodology was to look for institutions that Cherokees and Native peoples themselves considered traditional and to carefully study them.
Fogelson taught in the anthropology department at the University of Chicago and trained leading ethnohistorians of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Dedicated to his graduate students, the corpus of his influential scholarship resides in journal articles, academic presentations, and public lectures. In this essential collection, Sergei Kan and Michael E. Harkin have assembled Fogelson's pioneering articles as a resource for ethnohistorians in the twenty-first century.
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Cherokee Culture and Ethnohistory
Chapter 1. Change, Persistence, and Accommodation in Cherokee Medico-Magical Beliefs
Chapter 2. Cherokee Economic Cooperatives: The Gadugi
Chapter 3. The Cherokee Ballgame Cycle: An Ethnographer's View
Chapter 4. On the Varieties of Indian History: Sequoyah and Traveller Bird
Chapter 5. An Analysis of Cherokee Sorcery and Witchcraft
Chapter 6. Cherokee Notions of Power
Chapter 7. Windigo Goes South: Stoneclad among the Cherokees
Chapter 8. Cherokee Booger Mask Tradition
Chapter 9. Who Were the Ani-Kutani? An Excursion into Cherokee Historical Thought
Chapter 10. On the "Petticoat Government" of the Eighteenth-Century Cherokee
Chapter 11. The Keetoowah Movement in Indian Territory
Chapter 12. Exploring Cherokee Metaphysics of Death and Life
Chapter 13. Tradition: Intermittent and Persistent, with Particular Reference to the Cherokees
Part II. Native North American Ethnohistory
Chapter 14. Night Thoughts on Native American Social History
Chapter 15. The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents
Part III. History of Anthropology
Chapter 16. Interpretations of the American Indian Psyche: Some Historical Notes
Chapter 17. Perspectives on Native American Identity
Chapter 18. Nationalism and the Americanist Tradition
Chapter 19. Schneider Confronts Componential Analyses
Chapter 20. Totemism Reconsidered
