James Mooney (18611921) began his work for the US Bureau of American Ethnology in 1885. He studied Native American tribes in the Southeastern US as well as those of the Great Plains, meticulously recording details of their culture and religious rites. His work among the Cherokee is unparalleled. This edition of James Mooneys work contains the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891) as published by the Bureau of American Ethnology, with an exclusive biographical introduction ...
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James Mooney (18611921) began his work for the US Bureau of American Ethnology in 1885. He studied Native American tribes in the Southeastern US as well as those of the Great Plains, meticulously recording details of their culture and religious rites. His work among the Cherokee is unparalleled. This edition of James Mooneys work contains the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891) as published by the Bureau of American Ethnology, with an exclusive biographical introduction, James Mooney and the Eastern Cherokees, by George Ellison. James Mooneys work is a standard for anyone interested in the Cherokee tribe or Native American history.
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Fair. Size: 6x1x9; EX-LIBRARY copy with usual markings. Cover creased and worn. Cover and spine clear tape reinforced. Slight water wrinkle on top of last few pages. Light soiling on page ends. Text unmarked. Ships Next Business Day.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Edge stamped. Spine sunned. Clean, unmarked pages. "In James Mooney's writings, the memory and culture, the mind and spirit of a great people, the Cherokees, were saved from irreparable loss by the effort and vision of a gift anthropologist. Unique and genius are works trivialized by misuse, but in the case of this work, unique is genuinely appropriate and its author is an authentic genius."-Wilma Dykeman.
