"Chickasaw Society and Religion" brings back into print one of the
most important ethnographic sources on Chickasaw Indian society and
culture ever produced, making it available to a new generation of
students and scholars. The Smithsonian Institution ethnologist John
Swanton published his work on the Chickasaws in 1928 as part of the
Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology,
and, like Swanton's many other works on Southeastern Indians, it
has remained one of the primary sources for scholars and students
of Chickasaw and Southeastern Indian culture. Swanton combed
printed and archival documents in constructing a picture of
eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Chickasaw life.
Swanton's keen eye for detail and his impressive knowledge of
Southeastern Indian cultures make this study the starting point for
all Chickasaw scholarship. Swanton broaches topics as diverse as
Chickasaw marriage patterns, naming, government, education, gender
roles, subsistence, religion, burial customs, and medicine. He also
displays an intimate understanding of Chickasaw language throughout
the essay that will aid future researchers.
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