Raymond D. Fogelson Papers

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 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).

“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

• IntroductionPart I. Cherokee Culture and EthnohistoryChapter 1. Change, Persistence, and Accommodation in Cherokee Medico–Magical BeliefsChapter 2. Cherokee Economic Cooperatives: The GadugiChapter 3. The Cherokee Ballgame Cycle: An Ethnographer’s ViewChapter 4. On the Varieties of Indian History: Sequoyah and Traveller BirdChapter 5. An Analysis of Cherokee Sorcery and WitchcraftChapter 6. Cherokee Notions of PowerChapter 7. Windigo Goes South: Stoneclad among the CherokeesChapter 8. Cherokee Booger Mask TraditionChapter 9. Who Were the Ani-Kutani? An Excursion into Cherokee Historical ThoughtChapter 10. On the “Petticoat Government” of the Eighteenth-Century CherokeeChapter 11. The Keetoowah Movement in Indian TerritoryChapter 12. Exploring Cherokee Metaphysics of Death and LifeChapter 13. Tradition: Intermittent and Persistent, with Particular Reference to the CherokeesPart II. Native North American EthnohistoryChapter 14. Night Thoughts on Native American Social HistoryChapter 15. The Ethnohistory of Events and NoneventsPart III. History of AnthropologyChapter 16. Interpretations of the American Indian Psyche: Some Historical NotesChapter 17. Perspectives on Native American IdentityChapter 18. Nationalism and the Americanist TraditionChapter 19. Schneider Confronts Componential AnalysesChapter 20. Totemism Reconsidered