essay
Cherokee notions of power
anthropology of power • New York • Published In 1977 • Pages: 185-194
By: Fogelson, Raymond D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Anthropological considerations of what constitutes power tend to focus on one or two areas of investigation. One of these is oriented toward native ideas of personal or impersonal mystical energy, a mana-like force believed to imbue phenomena, persons, places, times, and things located in various culturally constituted behavioral environments: the second generally involves political processes and decision making. In this article Fogelson discusses traditional Cherokee ideas of power in the sense of mystical energy and then relates certain aspects of these ideas to Cherokee political processes (p. 185).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Moieties
- Political movements
- Sacred objects and places
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1958-1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1961
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Carolina and Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Raymond D. Fogelson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 194)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76009150
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians