Myths of the Cherokee
by Mooney, James
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0486289079
- ISBN 13
- 9780486289076
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About This Item
New York: Dover Publications, 1996. Facsimile Edition, Unabridged. Paperback. Very good. Size (6 1/8"x9 1/4"), decorated cover, notes and parallels to myths, glossary, index. -- Unabridged Dover (1996) republication of the text as originally printed in the "Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution", Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C., 1900. 4 maps, 20 halftones and 2 line figures. 608 pages. "Noted anthropologist James Mooney (1861-1921) spent much of his life studying American Indians. In North Carolina, he lived for several years with the Cherokee, studying their language, culture and mythology. His research resulted in this comprehensive volume, comprising 126 Cherokee myths, including sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, wonder stories, historical traditions and miscellaneous myth and legends."-back cover.
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- Bookseller
- Lonesome Water Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9272
- Title
- Myths of the Cherokee
- Author
- Mooney, James
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile Edition, Unabridged
- ISBN 10
- 0486289079
- ISBN 13
- 9780486289076
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Modern Books, Nonfiction, Western Americana, Native American, Cherokee, Myths, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Literature, American Indians, North Carolina, mythology, legends, animal myths, sacred stories,
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATIVE AMERICAN;
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