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An Analysis of Cherokee sorcery and witchcraft
Four centuries of southern Indians • Athens • Published In 1975 • Pages: 113-131
By: Fogelson, Raymond D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is an atttempt to understand some aspects of the larger structure of Cherokee witchcraft and sorcery beliefs by examining culturally recognized categories of witches and sorcerers. The material presented here combines documentary data with information gathered from informants. The author's treatment of his material is qualitative and inferential, rather than quantitative and firmly documented, but tries to put in order some facts and speculations about Cherokee sorcery and witchcraft and to place these data in perspective relative to comparable beliefs and practices in other societies (p. 117).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Ethics
- Sorcery
- Ethnosociology
- Status and treatment of the aged
- 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, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Raymond D. Fogelson
- '…[O]riginally presented at the nineteenth annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory held in Athens, Georgia, 13-16 October 1971.'
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-131)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73085028
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians