James Mooney

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

James Mooney was a son of Irish immigrants. John Wesley Powell , the director of the company founded in 1879 Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) ( Authority American Ethnology ) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC hired him 1885th

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

Mooney conducted field research with the Eastern Cherokee, Cheyenne and Kiowa and has studied the secrets of the shamans and the myths of the Indians, especially the Cherokee , extensively .

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

Fonts

  • 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 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 (genesis myths, animal fables, miracle stories, historical traditions and much more)

literature

  • LG Moses: The Indian Man. A Biography of James Mooney. University of Illinois Press, Chicago IL 1984, ISBN 0-252-01040-X .
  • Obituary . In: American Anthropologist 24, 1922, ISSN  0002-7294 , pp. 209-214 (full bibliography, excluding posthumously published writings).

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personal data
SURNAME Mooney, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Indiana
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1921
Place of death Washington, DC