An Eliadean Interpretation of Frank G. Speck's Account of the Cherokee Booger Dance

• Author(s): William Douglas Powers,
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Pages: 121
• ISBN_10: 0773466207
  ISBN_13: 9780773466203
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Dance / General , Performing Arts / Dance / Folk , Philosophy / Religious , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies ,

Description:... This study considers the Cherokee Booger Dance as a purely religious phenomenon by reinterpreting anthropologist Frank G. Speck's observations of a performance held by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians through the lens of Mircea Eliade's theory of religion.