Író/Szerző: James Mooney
Sorozat: The Native Americans
Kiadó: JG Press
Kiadás éve: 1995
Oldalszám: 498
Kötés: Fűzött, keménytáblás, védőborítóban
Nyelv: Angol
Állapot: jó
Állapot leírása:
Molnár László Miklós könyvtárából. Több mint negyven éve szenvedélyes kutatója a Vadnyugat történetének. Ismert könyvei: A híres vadnyugat; Old Shatterhand nyomában; A civil háború és a mormonok. Címoldalon Molnár László Miklós aláírásával.
ISBN: 157215201x
Méret: 17,5 cm x 24,5 cm

First published more than a century ago, The Ghost Dance is a unique first-hand account of a messianic movement against white subjugation that arose among Native Americans of the West and the Plains in the latter part of the 19th-century. Filled with remarkable photographs, the book vividly describes the background, development, and practice of The Ghost Dance--as well as the violent reaction to it, resulting in the tragic massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890.

James Mooney was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains. His most notable works were his ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance after Sitting Bull's death in 1890, a widespread 19th-century religious movement among various Native American culture groups, and the Cherokee: The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891), and Myths of the Cherokee (1900), all published by the US Bureau of American Ethnology. Artifacts from Mooney are in the collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and the Department of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History. Papers and photographs from Mooney are in the collections of the National Anthropological Archives, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution