The Structural Poses of 18th-Century Cherokee Villages

Reprinted from American Anthropologist, 60 (1958): 1148–56. Frederick O. Gearing is Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo. He has worked in contemporary North American Indian communities and, more recently, in contemporary Greece. He is the author of Priests and Warriors: Social Structures for Cherokee Politics in the 18th Century and The Face of the Fox.