Alan Kilpatrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 246598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Kilpatrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilpatrick |
| SIGNATURE | KILPATRICK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Carolina University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
My Mother's People: On Reconstructing Cherokee Medical History
On Translating Magical Texts
I am going to offer a few thoughts on translating magical texts, whether they are authored by Cherokees, Aztecs, or ancient Egyptians. To begin with, I should state that as forms of human expression, magical texts are one of the most resistant to formal translation simply because they are forms of cryptography that were never meant to be decoded. They are secretive documents written in a highly specialized vocabulary, replete with arcane forms of…
The Night has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee
Journal Article The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee. By Alan Kilpatrick. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xviii, 160 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8156-0471-8.) Get access Joel W. Martin Joel W. Martin Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1606–1607, …
The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee
A Note on Cherokee Theological Concepts
On this account, we find ourselves hindered from getting them to say properly in their Language, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Would you judge it fitting, while waiting a better expression, to substitute instead, in the name of our Father, and of his son, and of their holy ghost? (Thwaites 1847:117,119). The notes of Bre'beuf's private agony are, of course, illustrative of the flagrant ethnocentricism of his da…
Indians of the Southeastern United States in the Late 20th Century
Writing around a common set of topics, Paredes and his colleagues survey communities still surviving in the southeastern United States some 450 years after first contact with Europeans. Despite concerted government efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to remove them, dozens of communities that can be described as American Indian survive - from Virginia to Florida, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Louisiana bayous. Although many have been studi…
Indians of the Southeastern United States in the Late 20th Century
Writing around a common set of topics, Paredes and his colleagues survey communities still surviving in the southeastern United States some 450 years after first contact with Europeans. Despite concerted government efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to remove them, dozens of communities that can be described as American Indian survive - from Virginia to Florida, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Louisiana bayous. Although many have been studi…
Indians of the Southeastern United States in the Late 20th Century
Writing around a common set of topics, Paredes and his colleagues survey communities still surviving in the southeastern United States some 450 years after first contact with Europeans. Despite concerted government efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to remove them, dozens of communities that can be described as American Indian survive - from Virginia to Florida, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Louisiana bayous. Although many have been studi…
A Note on Cherokee Theological Concepts
On this account, we find ourselves hindered from getting them to say properly in their Language, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Would you judge it fitting, while waiting a better expression, to substitute instead, in the name of our Father, and of his son, and of their holy ghost? (Thwaites 1847:117,119). The notes of Bre'beuf's private agony are, of course, illustrative of the flagrant ethnocentricism of his da…
On Translating Magical Texts
I am going to offer a few thoughts on translating magical texts, whether they are authored by Cherokees, Aztecs, or ancient Egyptians. To begin with, I should state that as forms of human expression, magical texts are one of the most resistant to formal translation simply because they are forms of cryptography that were never meant to be decoded. They are secretive documents written in a highly specialized vocabulary, replete with arcane forms of…
The Night has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee
Journal Article The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee. By Alan Kilpatrick. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xviii, 160 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8156-0471-8.) Get access Joel W. Martin Joel W. Martin Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1606–1607, …
The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee
My Mother's People: On Reconstructing Cherokee Medical History
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