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.
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).
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
"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 Conversation
