The American Indian Ghost Dance, 1870 and 1890 An Annotated Bibliography

Subjects:

• Anthropology » Anthropology (General)
• Multicultural Studies » Native American Studies

Reviews:

• Osterreich has compiled a short, selective bibliography of considerable merit on a phenomenon of great importance in Native American history, American religious history, and anthropology. Consisting of 110 entries, each extensively annotated, the work provides a useful overview of the two Ghost Dance movements, as well as events before and after, and points to the various directions research has followed. Items included are from as early as 1890 and are as current as the late 1980s. Materials are grouped into seven subject areas, with headings such as "Personal Narratives and Biographies," and "Tribal Histories"; by far the longest section is "Anthropological Theory." An introduction and subject and author indexes complete the volume. There are several shortcomings, first and foremost brevity. Considering the much larger literature from which the compiler drew, a larger bibliography is in order to help the researcher and the student. There are also a number of typos, including at least one that results in a citation error. Finally, this reviewer is mystified as to why the entries are numbered, but the indexes refer to page numbers. In all, this is a good bibliography that could have been better; it is far too expensive for its size. Both college and university libraries.
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Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Ghost Dance Histories and Observations
• Tribal Histories
• Religion and the Ghost Dance
• Personal Narratives and Biographies
• Anthropological Theory
• Ghost Dance Music and Photographs
• Government and Military Histories
• Author Index
• Journal Index
• Subject Index