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John Reed Swanton

    John Reed Swanton war ein amerikanischer Anthropologe, Folklorist und Linguist. Er erlangte Anerkennung für seine ethnologischen und ethnohistorischen Studien, insbesondere mit Fokus auf die indigenen Völker des Südostens und des pazifischen Nordwestens. Seine Arbeit zielte darauf ab, die Kulturen und Sprachen der indigenen Gemeinschaften zu verstehen und zu dokumentieren. Swantons Beiträge bieten tiefe Einblicke in das Leben und die Traditionen dieser Gruppen.

    Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians
    Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors
    • First published in 1929, John R. Swanton’s Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians is a classic of American Indian folklore. During the years 1908-1914 Swanton gathered the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples living in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and in this volume he preserved more than three hundred tales of the Creek, Hitchiti, Alabama, Koasati, and Natchez Indians. Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians stands as the largest collection of Muskhogean oral traditions ever published. Included are stores on the origin of corn and tobacco, the deeds of ancient native heroes, visits to the world of the dead, and encounters between people and animals or supernatural beings in animal form. Animal tales abound, especially those on the southeastern trickster Rabbit.

      Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians