Creek Religion and Medicine

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John R Swanton

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Combining an array of historical sources with oral accounts gathered from fieldwork, this study provides an overview of traditional Creek (Muskogee) religion and medicine. The author visited the Creek Nation in the early 20th century and learned about many aspects of Creek religious life and medicine. Subjects covered in this book include Creek conceptions of the cosmos; religious stories; death and the afterlife; spiritual forces and beings; rituals, including the Busk ceremony; prohibitions; the power and skills of different religious practitioners; the cultural force of witchcraft; and herbal and spiritual remedies. Many of these beliefs and practices have been present throughout Creek history and persist at the end of the 20th century.

Author Biography:

John R. Swanton (1873-1958) was a seminal figure in the study of southeastern Native peoples, with more than thirty books to his credit. James Taylor Carson is an assistant professor of history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the author of Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal (Nebraska 1999).

Release date NZ

June 1st, 2000

Author

John R Swanton

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Introduction by James T. Carson

Illustrations

illus

Pages

213

Dimensions

180x276x15

ISBN-13

9780803292741

Product ID

7632897

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