Nineteenth-century North American ethnography by Mooney and Morgan

Briefly situating readings for Week 5 of the History of Anthropological Theory

The research monographs that this week’s readings shadow are Lewis Henry Morgan’s League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois and James Mooney’s The ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890. For a recommended sample of Mooney’s work, see Chapter 2: “The Doctrine of the Ghost Dance”.

Here is my recorded lecture segment on the historical context of the Ghost Dance:

Anthropologist Ella Deloria featured an eyewitness account of the Ghost Dance from an elder who a child during the peak of the religion.