Description
Book SynopsisWilliam N. Fenton's contributions to the understanding of the cultures and histories of the Iroquois are formidable.
William Fenton: Selected Writings brings together for the first time Fenton's most influential writings on the Iroquois and anthropology, written across nearly six decades.
Trade Review"This must-read memoir provides valuable insights for those interested in the twentieth-century Iroquois, ethnographic field methods, or the history of anthropology."—Denis Foley,
Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction
Fenton Papers--Précis
General Works
Iroquois Indian Folklore (1947)
Letters to an Ethnologist's Children: From Simeon Gibson to the Children of William N. Fenton Who Took Them Down (1948)
The Training of Historical Ethnologists in America (1952)
Cultural Stability and Change in American Indian Societies (1953)
The Hyde de Neuville Portraits of New York Savages in 1807–1808 (1954)
"This Island, the World on the Turtle's Back" (1962)
"Anthropology and the University": An Inaugural Lecture (1969)
Return to the Longhouse (1972)
The Advancement of Material Culture Studies in Modern Anthropological Research (1974)
The Iroquois in the Grand Tradition of American Letters: The Works of Walter D. Edmonds, Carl Carmer, and Edmund Wilson (1981)
Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy on Grand River, Canada (1989)
He-Lost-a-Bet (Howanneyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan (2001)
Book Reviews
The Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations by George T. Hunt (1940)
Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: The Seventeenth Century by Allen W. Trelease (1961)
Conservatism among the Iroquois at the Six Nations Reserve by Annemarie Anrod Shimony (1963)
"Huronia: An Essay in Proper Ethnohistory," a review of The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 by Bruce G. Trigger (1978)
The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter (1994)
Obituaries
Simeon Gibson: Iroquois Informant, 1889–1943 (1944)
Twí-yendagon' (Woodeater) Takes the Heavenly Path: On the Death of Henry Redeye (1864–1946), Speaker of the Coldspring Seneca Longhouse (1946)
John Reed Swanton, 1873–1958 (1959)
Howard Sky, 1900–1971: Cayuga Faith-Keeper, Gentleman, and Interpreter of Iroquois Culture (1972)
Conference on Iroquois Research
Conference on Iroquois Research (1947)
Fourth Conference on Iroquois Research (1948)
Seventh Conference on Iroquois Research (1952)
Iroquois Research (1956)
History and Purposes of the Conference on Iroquois Research (1967)
Iroquois Research Conference after 25 Years (1969)
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