The Raymond D. Fogelson Papers
Essays on Ethnohistory, Ethnology, and Native American Studies
Will be published approx. on 1. February 2026
Book
Hardback
412 pages
978-1-4962-4545-8 (ISBN)
Description
Raymond D. Fogelson was a luminary theoretician in the interdisciplinary field of ethnohistory who advocated for Indigenous-centered theory and ethnographic writing in the field of Cherokee studies and ethnohistory. Fogelson's unique methodology was to look for institutions that Cherokees and Native peoples themselves considered traditional and to carefully study them.
Fogelson taught in the anthropology department at the University of Chicago and trained leading ethnohistorians of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Dedicated to his graduate students, the corpus of his influential scholarship resides in journal articles, academic presentations, and public lectures. In this essential collection, Sergei Kan and Michael E. Harkin have assembled Fogelson's pioneering articles as a resource for ethnohistorians in the twenty-first century.
Fogelson taught in the anthropology department at the University of Chicago and trained leading ethnohistorians of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Dedicated to his graduate students, the corpus of his influential scholarship resides in journal articles, academic presentations, and public lectures. In this essential collection, Sergei Kan and Michael E. Harkin have assembled Fogelson's pioneering articles as a resource for ethnohistorians in the twenty-first century.
Reviews / Votes
"This edited collection is incredibly important: Many of these essays are difficult to gain access to, even with access to top-notch research libraries. And the essays are relevant to so many fields: ethnohistory, the Native South, Cherokee studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, anthropology, Southeastern archaeology, religious studies, folklore, and American studies. This volume will introduce a new generation of scholars to the formative works that influenced so much scholarship that came after."-Julie L. Reed, author of Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907 "Raymond Fogelson's scholarly contributions merit more attention than they have received. This collection of his papers is valuable for its Cherokee content, for its contribution to ethnohistory, and as a record and legacy of a professor who influenced and supported a great many students at the University of Chicago in the various subfields of anthropology to which he contributed."-Jennifer S. H. Brown, editor of Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in ConversationMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 photograph, 1 figure, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4962-4545-8 (9781496245458)
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Persons
Raymond D. Fogelson (1933-2020) was coeditor of The Anthropology of Power: Ethnographic Studies from Asia, Oceania, and New World and author of The Cherokees: A Critical Bibliography. Sergei Kan is a professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser (Nebraska, 2023). Michael E. Harkin is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming-Laramie. He is the author of several books, including Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands (Bison Books, 2007).
Content
Introduction
Part I. Cherokee Culture and Ethnohistory
Chapter 1. Change, Persistence, and Accommodation in Cherokee Medico-Magical Beliefs
Chapter 2. Cherokee Economic Cooperatives: The Gadugi
Chapter 3. The Cherokee Ballgame Cycle: An Ethnographer's View
Chapter 4. On the Varieties of Indian History: Sequoyah and Traveller Bird
Chapter 5. An Analysis of Cherokee Sorcery and Witchcraft
Chapter 6. Cherokee Notions of Power
Chapter 7. Windigo Goes South: Stoneclad among the Cherokees
Chapter 8. Cherokee Booger Mask Tradition
Chapter 9. Who Were the Ani-Kutani? An Excursion into Cherokee Historical Thought
Chapter 10. On the "Petticoat Government" of the Eighteenth-Century Cherokee
Chapter 11. The Keetoowah Movement in Indian Territory
Chapter 12. Exploring Cherokee Metaphysics of Death and Life
Chapter 13. Tradition: Intermittent and Persistent, with Particular Reference to the Cherokees
Part II. Native North American Ethnohistory
Chapter 14. Night Thoughts on Native American Social History
Chapter 15. The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents
Part III. History of Anthropology
Chapter 16. Interpretations of the American Indian Psyche: Some Historical Notes
Chapter 17. Perspectives on Native American Identity
Chapter 18. Nationalism and the Americanist Tradition
Chapter 19. Schneider Confronts Componential Analyses
Chapter 20. Totemism Reconsidered
Part I. Cherokee Culture and Ethnohistory
Chapter 1. Change, Persistence, and Accommodation in Cherokee Medico-Magical Beliefs
Chapter 2. Cherokee Economic Cooperatives: The Gadugi
Chapter 3. The Cherokee Ballgame Cycle: An Ethnographer's View
Chapter 4. On the Varieties of Indian History: Sequoyah and Traveller Bird
Chapter 5. An Analysis of Cherokee Sorcery and Witchcraft
Chapter 6. Cherokee Notions of Power
Chapter 7. Windigo Goes South: Stoneclad among the Cherokees
Chapter 8. Cherokee Booger Mask Tradition
Chapter 9. Who Were the Ani-Kutani? An Excursion into Cherokee Historical Thought
Chapter 10. On the "Petticoat Government" of the Eighteenth-Century Cherokee
Chapter 11. The Keetoowah Movement in Indian Territory
Chapter 12. Exploring Cherokee Metaphysics of Death and Life
Chapter 13. Tradition: Intermittent and Persistent, with Particular Reference to the Cherokees
Part II. Native North American Ethnohistory
Chapter 14. Night Thoughts on Native American Social History
Chapter 15. The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents
Part III. History of Anthropology
Chapter 16. Interpretations of the American Indian Psyche: Some Historical Notes
Chapter 17. Perspectives on Native American Identity
Chapter 18. Nationalism and the Americanist Tradition
Chapter 19. Schneider Confronts Componential Analyses
Chapter 20. Totemism Reconsidered