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ISBN: 039471699X

ISBN13: 9780394716992

The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca

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By Anthony F.C. Wallace

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Book Overview

in this book, an award-winning anthropologist tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake and the revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around 1800.

"Here is a carefully crafted masterpiece of anthropological and historical investigation. It is about both the specific renaissance of the Seneca and the possible renaissance of any people. On its specific subject matter, it will probably remain the definitive study for a long time."--Christian Science Monitor

"Until this volume, there has been no single book written that relates the history and life style of one of the Iroquois peoples with the encompassing depth and breadth of knowledge, clarity, and interest that the subject deserves. Finally, this book does it for the Seneca. It is enthralling history, told in a knowledgeable, highly readable way."--Alvin M. Joseph Jr., author of The Indian Heritage of America

"This book is at once troubling and richly textured; for it draws skillfully and impartially on the resources of history, ethnology and psychology to chronicle the agony and decline of one of the proudest of American Indian peoples."--Morris Opler

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:039471699X

ISBN13:9780394716992

Release Date:April 1972

Publisher:Vintage

Length:416 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"

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Rated 4 stars
Fascinating Reading

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 5, 2006

Required reading on the subject of the Seneca. The author paints an objective picture, but also manages to add emotional poignancy to a very thorough historical account. The language and syntax remain scholarly throughout, yet Wallace's powers of observation place the reader in the longhouse, in the minds of the Seneca, and in the hearts of a people brought to the brink of cultural extinction. An excellent work.

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Rated 5 stars
How a rave gone awry launched a spiritual movement

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 1, 2000

This book can be read several ways-- as a chronicle of the American Revolution from the Native American point of view, as escapist literature glorifying the Iroquois in their heyday, as a rather challenging alternative perspective on serial monogamy, torture, and social norms, as the transformation of a branch of Native American spirituality into a movement for sobriety, right-to-life, and the renunciation of witchcraft, as...

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Rated 5 stars
Historically correct Seneca hist., religion, culture.

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 17, 1998

I read this while participating in the YMCA Indian Guide/Indian Princess program and found it to be very wide in scope in covering the history, religions, culture, tales, and all aspects of Seneca life. I found it fascinating and recommend it to anyone exploring the fate of the Iroquois. I also found the Seneca museum in Salamanca, NY to be a good source of information.

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