The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, Anthony F. C. Wallace's 1969 study from Alfred A. Knopf, is the classic academic history of the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake, his visions circa 1799 to 1800, and the Gaiwiio, or Longhouse religion, revitalization movement he founded, by a leading anthropologist of the Iroquois. Its strength is that it remains the standard, still cited account of Handsome Lake's movement, confirmed against multiple bibliographic listings for its author, publisher and year. Its limit is its age, well over fifty years; the acculturation stress framework Wallace applied has since been engaged and revised by later ethnohistory, which a reader should check alongside it.
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Anthony F. C. Wallace's The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, published by Alfred A. Knopf, is treated at the top tier as the classic academic history of Handsome Lake's movement, notwithstanding that its acculturation stress framework has since been engaged and revised by later ethnohistory. NotesClassic academic history of the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake, his visions circa 1799-1800 and the Gaiwiio (Longhouse religion) revitalization movement he founded, by a leading anthropologist of the Iroquois. Squarely the Haudenosaunee fact's own subject.
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AuthorAnthony F. C. Wallace
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf (Vintage paperback edition)
Publication Year1969
URLhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/185049/the-death-and-rebirth-of-the-seneca-by-anthony-wallace/
Source TypeScholarly work
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