Comprehensive account of Shawnee culture including musical notations of Shawnee songs, maps, and heirloom photographs.
“James H. Howard is one of the most enthusiastic and competent
contemporary ethnographers describing the North American Native
experience… [Shawnee!] is an enlightening and even exciting picture
of a fascinating people.”
*The American Indian Quarterly*
“Long known for his anthropological reports and cultural studies of
native religion, especially the southeastern ceremonial complex,
Howard brings seasoned expertise and veteran scholarship to this
intricate topic. The result is as close to a definitive treatment
as we are likely to get.”
*Religious Studies Review*
“This valuable edition to the literature on the American Indian
will be a useful reference for anthropologists, historians, and
Americanists. It is a scholarly work, yet is certainly within the
range of the many educated laypersons who pursue American Indian
studies.”
*Choice*
“James Howard … has published a classic ethnography on the former
eastern Native American group (the Shawnee), focusing on their
ceremonialism.”
*Plains Anthropologist*
“An excellent analytical and descriptive treatment of the principle
cultural traits of the Shawnees, together with their more important
ceremonial expressions.”
*Journal of the West*
“Although this volume contains much material on ceremonialism, new
and old, among the Shawnee, it is more than a book on Shawnee
ceremonialism. It is a well-researched monograph on Shawnee
culture…. This is a very fine work on a little known but important
tribe.”
*Ethnos*
“James H. Howard provides a welcome descriptive ethnography of
contemporary Shawnee ceremonialism… Howard’s knowledge of Shawnee
rituals based on ethnographic fieldwork is impressive.”
*Ethnohistory*
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