Article describes the life and career of John Reed Swanton, an anthropologist in the early 20th century who researched the oral tradition of Southeastern Native American peoples.
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Article describes the life and career of John Reed Swanton, an anthropologist in the early 20th century who researched the oral tradition of Southeastern Native American peoples.
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Abstract: Southeastern Native American societies passed their historical knowledge to the next generation through oral tradition. John Reed Swanton was an anthropologist in the early twentieth century who applied an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Native peoples, and included their stories in his research. Brady DeSanti compares Swanton's methods with those of more recent anthropologists to show how innovative Swanton's practices were in comparison to his contemporaries.
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DeSanti, Brady."I Can Come Into Your World But You Can't Come Into Mine": John Swanton and Southeastern Oral Narratives,
article,
Spring 2016;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2017387/:
accessed July 8, 2024),
The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org;
crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.