James Mooney

James Mooney ( born February 10, 1861 in Richmond ( Indiana), † December 22, 1921 in Washington, DC ) was an American anthropologist who among the Cherokee, a North American Indian tribe, lived for several years.

James Mooney was a son of Irish immigrants. John Wesley Powell, the director of the Bureau of American Ethnology, founded in 1879 (BAE ) ( authority of American Ethnology ) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC put it in 1885.

A classic of anthropology is its ethnographic study The Ghost - Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, the Ghost Dance ( Ghost Dance ), one among various groups of North American Indians widespread religious movement in 1890 in a bloody confrontation with the United States Army Wounded Knee (South Dakota) ended.

Mooney did field research at the Eastern Cherokee, Cheyenne and Kiowa and has extensively studied the secrets of the shaman and the myths of the Indians, particularly the Cherokee.

Also on the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico ( BAE Bulletin 30, 1907 and 1910) by Frederick W. Hodge, he worked with.

Writings

  • Myths of the Cherokees (1888 )
  • Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891 )
  • Siouan Tribes of the East (1894 )
  • The Messiah Religion and the Ghost Dance; Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians (1898 )
  • The Ghost - Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 (1896)
  • Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians
  • The Cheyenne Indians (1907 )
  • Indian missions north of Mexico
  • Linguistic families of Indian tribes north of Mexico

Bibliography

  • James Mooney: The Ghost - Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, Washington in 1896.
  • James Mooney: The Siouan Tribes of the East. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1894
  • James Mooney with Frans M. Olbrechts (ed.): The Swimmer Manuscript: Cherokee Sacred Formulas and Medicinal Prescriptions. Bureau of American Ethnology ', Bulletin, No. 99, Washington, DC: Gov. Print. Off. , 1932
  • ( George Ellison, ed ) James Mooney 's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees: Containing the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The sacred formulas of the Cherokees (1891 ) as published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. With a new biographical introduction, James Mooney and the eastern Cherokees, by George Ellison. Asheville, NC: Historical Images, 1992

German translations

  • James Mooney ( ed.): The Myths of the Cherokee. ISBN 3-88468-051 -X ( creation myths, fables, wonder tales, historical traditions, etc. )
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