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Title: Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa by Charles M. Hudson ISBN: 0-8078-5421-2 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: disappointing
Comment: Ditto what Michael Polich said. More Cherokee than Creek/Muskogee - so why not use a Cherokee town name and say it is Cherokee? Or use John Swanton's Creek Religion and Medicine or Bill Grantham's Creation myths and legends if it is Muskogee? Or just make up a place and say unknown SE American Indian tribe/group/town?
I was just plain old disappointed with this effort by Dr. Hudson. He has done better (Southeastern Indians). This isn't much of a literary effort or "historical fiction."
Rating: 1
Summary: You'd really expect more from someone like Hudson
Comment: "Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa" is neither good fiction nor good ethnography. Charles Hudson's Coosa worldview is inexplicably almost totally Cherokee in outlook. Hudson says he relied on Cherokee folklore because it was more internally consistent than Muskogean folklore, and that Cherokee had some stories that Muskogean folklore didn't that he thought exemplified the Coosan worldview. Hudson seems to ignore the fact that the Cherokees were different from the Muskogeans for a reason- they were Iroquoian. The Cherokees were not moundbuilders, so why would you rely on the stories of a people that were not moundbuilders to explain the worldview of a moundbuilding people?
Also, why would you totally make up stories? Hudson does just this, and some of the stories he makes up makes you wonder why he did so. For instance, why did he make up the Coosans celebrating a ceremony with dancers dressed up in a dragon costume, when there is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT THE COOSANS OR ANY OTHER MOUNDBUILDING PEOPLE EVER DID ANYTHING REMOTELY LIKE THAT! Hudson's explanation for doing this are equally as mystifying- he says he was influenced in part by CHINESE CELEBRATIONS FEATURING DANCERS DRESSED LIKE DRAGONS. Does Hudson now believe that the Mississippians were influenced by the Chinese??
Even looking at this book purely as fiction doesn't improve it any. The characters are totally one dimensional, there is no real plot, the narrative reads like a children's book of mostly Cherokee legends, and what little plot there is is boring.
If you're an anthropologist or folklorist, this book will make you tear out your hair with its inaccuracies and badly rationalized extrapolations. Historians and archaeologists should equally avoid this book. This book is bad as either a fictionalized ethnography, fiction, or ethnography.
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Title: Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms by Charles Hudson ISBN: 0820320625 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World by Robbie Ethridge ISBN: 0807854956 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 08 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History With Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green, Micheal D. Green ISBN: 031208658X Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History by Robert Carneiro ISBN: 0813337666 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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