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Cherokee healing: myth, dreams, and medicine
American Indian quarterly • 16 (2) • Published In 1992 • Pages: 237-257
By: Irwin, Lee.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper analyzes Eastern Cherokee shamanism of the nineteenth century, particularly in terms of the interactions between the shaman, the patient, and the mythic powers of the Cherokee world view. Much of the material in this study comes from three primary sources: the unpublished Payne manuscripts collected in the 1830s prior to the Cherokee removal in 1838, the early ethnography collected by James Mooney in Quallatown in 1887, and the subsequent commentary on the sacred formula manuscripts undertaken by Frans Olbrechts in 1915 (p. 237). The complex array of interconnected beliefs, practices, and experiences that constitute Cherokee healing is then integrated into an overview of Cherokee cultural and religious transformations which had taken place during the period of time under study.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Cosmology
- Revelation and divination
- Magic
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnozoology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Religious Studies
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1830-1915
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Carolina, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lee Irwin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-257)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians