Book
Religious beliefs and medicinal practices of the Creek Indians
U.S. Govt. Print. Off. • Washington, Dc • Published In 1928 • Pages: 473-672
By: Swanton, John Reed.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is the second part of a comprehensive ethnography of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy. The first part, that deals with social organization, will be found in document 1:Swanton. Swanton includes here materials on Creek cosmology, mythology, supernatural beings, eschatology, and ceremonies. The last part of the document deals with shamanism and medicine. The material in this document is indexed in document 1:Swanton, pages 859-900.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Theory of disease
- Medical therapy
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Pharmaceuticals
- Spirits and gods
- Magic
- Ethnozoology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Creek
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- W. W. Stein; 1956; John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1911-1912
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1750-1912
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by John R. Swanton
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 672)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 28030083
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Creek Indians