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John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory.
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Swanton’s work in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory is well recognized. He is particularly noted for his work with indigenous peoples of the Southeastern United States and American Pacific Northwest. His first assignment for the Bureau of American Ethnology was the study of Haida Indians. The project was directly supervised by Franz Boas and...
Swanton’s contribution to anthropology is significant. He was the foremost authority on the beliefs and customs of the Southeastern Indian tribes, and as such enhanced our understanding of that part of Americanculture. His essays on particular Indian tribes, especially the not so well-known ones, still serve as the source of information for modern ...
Swanton, John R. 1908. Haida texts—Masset dialect. G.E. Stechert & Company.Swanton, John R. 1911. (original 1905). Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida. AMS Press Inc. ISBN 0404581056Swanton, John R. 1918. An Early Account of the Choctaw Indians. American Anthropologist, 5, 51-72.Swanton, John R. 1927. Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians. Forty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 639-670. Washington, D.C.: Government Printi...Bringhurst, Robert. 1999. Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World. Douglas & Mcintyre Ltd. ISBN 1550546961Fenton, William N. 1959. John Reed Swanton (1873-1958). American Anthropological Association.Ghandl. 2000. Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803213166John Reed Swanton was an American anthropologist and a foremost student of North American Indian ethnology. His contributions to knowledge of the Indians of the southeastern United States significantly developed the discipline of ethnohistory.
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Swanton was one of the founders of the American Anthropological Association and later its president and the editor of its journal, the American Anthropologist.
John Reed Swanton was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieve...
John R. Swanton (1873-1958) Bureau of American Ethnology, Dept. Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian. Verified email at si.edu.
John R. Swanton, ethnologist of Smithsonian Institution, announced the tentative tracing of the identity of the "Croatan to the Siquan stock of Indians, best known in the northwest. By a study of early documents, tribal connections, and language, Swanton connected them closely with the Cheraw, a Siouan people first encountered in South Carolina ...
