Elisabeth Tooker
Biographic Data
| ID | 83001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Tooker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Tooker |
| SIGNATURE | TOOKER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ancient Society
Lewis Henry Morgan's *Ancient Society*, originally published in 1877, is a foundational work in anthropology and sociology. It presents Morgan's theory of social evolution, arguing that human societies progress through three distinct stages: savagery, barbarism, and civilization. These stages are further divided into lower, middle, and upper sub-stages, each marked by technological advancements and corresponding changes in kinship systems, proper…
A Note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy on Grand River, Canada
The demand of the Iroquois for and the eventual return of eleven wampum belts then held by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, to the Six Nations Reserve in Canada has attracted some notice, including an article in Ethnohistory by William N. Fenton in I989. The reasons are several, among them the legal and ethical issues involved in the repatriation of objects now in various museums. Documentary evidence inadvertently overlooked b…
Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture
Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture
The Journals of Christian Daniel Claus and Conrad Weiser
The Iroquois
Journal Article The Iroquois. By Dean R. Snow. (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994. xviii, 268 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-55786-225-7.) and Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture. By Elisabeth Tooker. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. xxii, 325 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-8165-1347-3. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1462-3.) Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
The Iroquois in the Civil War
Journal Article The Iroquois in the Civil War: From Battlefield fo Reservation. By Laurence M. Hauptman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993. xiv, 214 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-0272-3.) Get access Elisabeth Tooker Elisabeth Tooker Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 709–710, https://doi.org…
Reply to Kuper's Commentary
Lewis H. Morgan and His Contemporaries
How Lewis H. Morgan came to do what he did has been much commented on, not always accurately. Manuscripts preserved in the papers Morgan bequeathed to the University of Rochester correct these errors, provide insights into how Morgan went about doing research, and suggest the relevance of his work to issues still being discussed
Rejoinder to Johansen
The wonder of Johansen's and Grinde's research is that they have uncovered so little evidence of the influence of the image the colonists held of the Indian on what Johansen now wants to call the American character. The sources they cite are few and often bear only a tenuous relationship to the issue at hand. Given the importance of Indians in seventeenthand eighteenth-century American history, much more documentary evidence might have been expec…
The False Faces of the Iroquois
Iroquois Studies
Affluence and Cultural Survival. 1981 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society
The United States Constitution and the Iroquois League
Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands
Affluence and Cultural Survival
Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society
Naming Systems
The Iroquois Restoration
The Indian Peoples of Eastern America
Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands
The Structure of the Iroquois League
Description analyse des travaux de L. H. Morgan sur l'organisation socio-politique des Iroquois (Etats-Unis) publies en 1851 dans son ouvrage League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois
Ethnography by Archaeologists
Shawnee
More on Morgan's Nonmentalist Mind
Lewis H. Morgan and His Contemporaries
How Lewis H. Morgan came to do what he did has been much commented on, not always accurately. Manuscripts preserved in the papers Morgan bequeathed to the University of Rochester correct these errors, provide insights into how Morgan went about doing research, and suggest the relevance of his work to issues still being discussed
Affluence and Cultural Survival
Northern Iroquoian Sociopolitical Organization1
Data from seventeenth-century documents on the Iroquoian-speaking Hurons indicates that their sociopolitical organization was virtually identical to that of the ethno-graphically better-known Iroquois. The Hurons had a tribal and a clan organization both of which systems resembled the comparable Iroquois ones in the specific details known
The United States Constitution and the Iroquois League
Ancient Society
Lewis Henry Morgan's *Ancient Society*, originally published in 1877, is a foundational work in anthropology and sociology. It presents Morgan's theory of social evolution, arguing that human societies progress through three distinct stages: savagery, barbarism, and civilization. These stages are further divided into lower, middle, and upper sub-stages, each marked by technological advancements and corresponding changes in kinship systems, proper…
A Note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy on Grand River, Canada
The demand of the Iroquois for and the eventual return of eleven wampum belts then held by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, to the Six Nations Reserve in Canada has attracted some notice, including an article in Ethnohistory by William N. Fenton in I989. The reasons are several, among them the legal and ethical issues involved in the repatriation of objects now in various museums. Documentary evidence inadvertently overlooked b…
Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands
Rejoinder to Johansen
The wonder of Johansen's and Grinde's research is that they have uncovered so little evidence of the influence of the image the colonists held of the Indian on what Johansen now wants to call the American character. The sources they cite are few and often bear only a tenuous relationship to the issue at hand. Given the importance of Indians in seventeenthand eighteenth-century American history, much more documentary evidence might have been expec…
The Structure of the Iroquois League
Description analyse des travaux de L. H. Morgan sur l'organisation socio-politique des Iroquois (Etats-Unis) publies en 1851 dans son ouvrage League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois
Shawnee
The Iroquois White Dog Sacrifice in the Latter Part of the Eighteenth Century
Of all the ceremonials that comprise Iroquois ritual, the most important, the longest, and the most complex is the Midwinter, or New Year's festival. In the week or two that the ceremonial lasts (the number of days varies on the different reservations), many of the rites of the Iroquois ritual repertory are given. Some of these are distinctive of Midwinter and are given only then; others are performed as part of other ceremonials also. Of those t…
Reply to Kuper's Commentary
The Iroquois Restoration
The Mind of Lewis H. Morgan [and Comments and Reply]
A careful restudy of Morgan's writings (including unpublished manuscripts) has led to several rather obvious conclusions that would be not be starling were it not for the fact that scholarly writings since Engels about Morgan's personality and thought have presented such polarized contentions. (1) Morgan was not a "functionalist"-determinist, thus neither materialist nor idealist. (2) He was neither pro- nor anti-Darwinist and never addressed him…
General and Ethnology
Natchez Social Organization
Increasingly, anthropologists are turning to historical documents as a source of ethnographic data. As they do so, it becomes more and more apparent that these documents often are subject to several different interpretations, the result of the sometimes contradictory, sometimes distorted, and always incomplete data they contain. However, not all possible interpretations are equally plausible and a choice must be made. Currently, this choice rests…
The Pilgrims In Church
Natchez Social Organization
Increasingly, anthropologists are turning to historical documents as a source of ethnographic data. As they do so, it becomes more and more apparent that these documents often are subject to several different interpretations, the result of the sometimes contradictory, sometimes distorted, and always incomplete data they contain. However, not all possible interpretations are equally plausible and a choice must be made. Currently, this choice rests…
The Iroquois White Dog Sacrifice in the Latter Part of the Eighteenth Century
Of all the ceremonials that comprise Iroquois ritual, the most important, the longest, and the most complex is the Midwinter, or New Year's festival. In the week or two that the ceremonial lasts (the number of days varies on the different reservations), many of the rites of the Iroquois ritual repertory are given. Some of these are distinctive of Midwinter and are given only then; others are performed as part of other ceremonials also. Of those t…
On the Uses of Film‐a Comment on Ewers' Review
General and Ethnology
Northeastern Anthropological Association
On the New Religion of Handsome Lake
duced to the Iroquois by the prophet Handsome Lake. They argue that the breakdown of the old socio-cultural system and the resultant disorganization that followed the defeat of the Iroquois during the American Revolution led to such deviant behavior as excessive drinking and promiscuity, and that Handsome Lake attempted to curb this disruptive behavior by saying that the Creator did not want the Iroquois to indulge in such actions. It is the inte…
The Savages of America
Northern Iroquoian Sociopolitical Organization1
Data from seventeenth-century documents on the Iroquoian-speaking Hurons indicates that their sociopolitical organization was virtually identical to that of the ethno-graphically better-known Iroquois. The Hurons had a tribal and a clan organization both of which systems resembled the comparable Iroquois ones in the specific details known
Clans and Moieties in North America
This review of the ethnographic data on North American clans and moieties suggests that they did not develop as a device to maintain knowledge of genealogical connections between lineages, but rather were a device to establish and maintain relationships with non-kin through the fiction of kinship. Certain features of these groups further suggest that they originally served to facilitate trade over the North American continent and were intimately …
Iroquois Culture, History and Prehistory
Parker on the Iroquois
The Iroquois Ceremonial of Midwinter
The Huron
Friend and Foe
American Indian Life 1776-1976
Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands
This volume includes a basic collection of the sacred texts, religious beliefs and practices of the Indian tribes that lived along the east coast of the United States and Canada.
The Delawares
Another View of Morgan on Kinship
Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands
Isaac N. Hurd's Ethnographic Studies of the Iroquois
The Mind of Lewis H. Morgan [and Comments and Reply]
A careful restudy of Morgan's writings (including unpublished manuscripts) has led to several rather obvious conclusions that would be not be starling were it not for the fact that scholarly writings since Engels about Morgan's personality and thought have presented such polarized contentions. (1) Morgan was not a "functionalist"-determinist, thus neither materialist nor idealist. (2) He was neither pro- nor anti-Darwinist and never addressed him…
Ethnography by Archaeologists
Shawnee
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