The Brainerd Journal, A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823
Phillips, Joyce B. and Paul Gary Phillips
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Press, 1998
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Scant rubbing on tips, dustjacket with mild edgewear, now in protective mylar. The Brainerd Mission was located near what is today Chattanooga, Tennessee - for seven years the missionaries kept a journal describing local activities. ; MCN28179; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 584 pp.
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- Title
- The Brainerd Journal, A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823
- Author
- Phillips, Joyce B. and Paul Gary Phillips
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- Very Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0803237189
- ISBN 13
- 9780803237186
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
The journal entries provide a richly textured and sensitive look at Cherokee life and American missionary activities during the early nineteenth century. They shed new light on the daily lives and personalities of individual Cherokees, as well as on poorly understood aspects of Cherokee politics and religion. The journal provides interesting ethnographic details concerning Cherokee council meetings, ceremonial occasions, gender relations, and the internal social and political tensions among families. Of equal interest are the complex and often conflicted attitudes of the missionaries, who were interested in Cherokee traditional culture but simultaneously worked to change it.
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