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The doctrine of souls and disease among the Chinook Indians
Journal of American folk-lore • 6 • Published In 1979 • Pages: 39-42
By: Boas, Franz.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the summer of 1891 Boas obtained a series of oral texts from one of the last survivors of the Chinook tribe dealing with the doctrine of souls as held by the Chinook Indians. Based on these texts this article presents data on beliefs about sickness and death as caused by soul loss and sorcery, the fate of the soul after death, and the efforts of shaman and their guardian spirits in restoring health to their clients by bringing back the souls of the ill from the world of the ghosts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theory of disease
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Life and death
- Animism
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chinookans of the Lower Columbia River
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- 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.
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- summer 1891
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pacific Northwest coast, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Franz Boas
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63024221
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chinook Indians