In an introduction to one work, this anthropologist tells "The Tale of the Soul-Stealing Jew" and di
In an introduction to one work, this anthropologist tells "The Tale of the Soul-Stealing Jew" and discusses the "art people create before they find out that there is such a thing as art," referring to primitive stories told in reaction to the natural world. This social scientist famously coined the term "the spy glass of anthropology" to refer to the idea of seeing oneself as somebody else, and analyzed the dancers of Polk County in one work. That work features a study of Marie Leveau, as well as four other hoodoo doctors whose beliefs on healing potions and conjuring are studied. Stories about the citizens of Eatonville are also discussed, while another ethnography by this writer discusses the Maroons of Jamaica, and is entitled Tell My Horse. FTP, name this student of Frans Boas who wrote the text Mules and Men, and was a Florida-born author of some fiction like Seraph on the Suwanee.
In an introduction to one work, this anthropologist tells "The Tale of the Soul-Stealing Jew" and discusses the "art people create before they find out that there is such a thing as art," referring to primitive stories told in reaction to the natural world.
Zora Neale {Hurston}