Seneca possessed
Subtitle: Indians, witchcraft, and power in the early American republic
By: Matthew Dennis.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812242263
Subjects: Handsome Lake, -- 1735-1815; Seneca Indians -- Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century; Seneca Indians -- Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Community life -- Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century; Social change -- Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century; Witchcraft -- Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century; Power (Social sciences) -- Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century; Quakers -- Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century; Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century; Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Dominion; title: Colonial crucible and post-Revolutionary predicament; title: pt. 2. Spirit; title: Handsome Lake and the Seneca great awakening : revelation and transformation; title: Patriarchy and the witch-hunting of Handsome Lake; title: pt. 3. Mastery; title: Friendly mission : the holy conversation of Quakers and Senecas; title: From longhouse to farmhouse : Quakers and the transformation of Seneca rural life; title: Seneca repossessed, 1818-1826.