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Title: | Sources for the history of ethnosciences: the case of the Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees | Authors: | Uchôa, Raphael Waisse, Silvia |
Issue Date: | 2024 | Publisher: | Department of History and Sociology of Science | Project: | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101002359/EU/Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin | Serial title, monograph or event: | History of Anthropology Review | Issue: | 48 | Place of publication or event: | Philadelphia | Abstract: | Formularies, or books of prescriptions, have been in circulation since the very onset of recorded history. A large part of Egyptian papyri and Assyrian-Babylonian cuneiform tablets, for example, consist of collections of medical prescriptions. This genre of literature awakened the attention of European scholars, together with the rise of philology in the nineteenth century, to gain momentum starting in the early decades of the following century. To our surprise, during research for another project, we fell upon a study of a formulary that antedates by several decades the earliest known ones. This is noteworthy not only for its temporal precedence but also because this study was carried out in the “New,” rather than in the “Old,” World and within a context entirely foreign to both philology and historical studies. Here, we are referring to James Mooney’s The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891). | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/116160 | ISSN: | 2572-2220 | Rights: | openAccess |
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