William N. Fenton - Publications

Publications

Fenton wrote extensively on Iroquois ethnology, historiography, the history of anthropology, and museum anthropology for several decades. Some of his works include:

• An Outline of Seneca ceremonies at Coldspring Longhouse, 1936, work at Yale University, studying for his doctorate.
• Fenton, William N. (1940), ""Problems Arising from the Historic Northeastern Position of the Iroquois"", in Julian H. Steward (ed.), Essays in Historical Anthropology of North America, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 100, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 159–252
• Fenton, William N. (1942), ""Contacts between Iroquois herbalism and colonial medicine"", Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1941, Washington, DC, pp. 503–526, ISBN 0-8466-4032-5
• Songs from the Iroquois longhouse : program notes for an album of American Indian music from the eastern woodlands 1942 Library of Congress music collection;
• William N. Fenton, ed. (1951), Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 149, Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office; Smithsonian Institution
• Fenton, William N. (1952), "The Training of Historical Ethnologists in America", American Anthropologist 54 (3): 328–339, doi:10.1525/aa.1952.54.3.02a00040, ISSN 0002-7294, http://www.jstor.org/view/00027294/ap020284/02a00040/0?currentResult=00027294%2bap020284%2b02a00040%2b0%2cFF1F&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FBasicResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26gw%3Djtx%26jtxsi%3D1%26jcpsi%3D1%26artsi%3D1%26Query%3DThe%2BTraining%2Bof%2BHistorical%2BEthnologists%2Bin%2BAmerica%26wc%3Don
• The Roll Call of the Iroquois Chiefs 1950 ISBN 0-404-15536-7
• The Iroquois Eagle Dance: an offshoot of the Calumet Dance 1953 ISBN 0-8156-2533-2
• Fenton, William N. (1960), "The Museum and Anthropological Research", Curator 3 (4): 327–355, doi:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1960.tb01697.x
• Fenton, William N. (1962), "Ethnohistory and Its Problems", Ethnohistory 9 (1): 1–23, doi:10.2307/480783, ISSN 00141801, JSTOR 480783
• Fenton, William N. (1966), "Field Work, Museum Studies, and Ethnohistorical Research", Ethnohistory 13 (1/2): 71–85, ISSN 0014-1801, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1801%28196624%2F21%2913%3A1%2F2%3C71%3AFWMSAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
• Fenton, William N. (1974), ""The Advancement of Material Culture Studies in Modern Anthropological Research"", in Miles Richardson (ed.), The Human Mirror: Material and Spatial Images of Man, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, pp. 15–36
• Fenton, William N. (1979), "Cherokee-Iroquois Connections Revisited", Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (4): 239–249
• Fenton, William N. (1986), ""Sapir as Museologist and Research Director, 1910–1925"", in William Cowan, Michael K. Foster, E. F. K. Koerner (eds.), New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 215–240
• Fenton, William N. (1987), The False Faces of the Iroquois, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-2039-8
• Fenton, William N. (1998), The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-2039-8
• Fenton, William N. (2007 (posthumous)), Iroquois Journey – An Anthropologist Remembers, Norman, OK: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2021-8
• Fenton, William N. (2002), The Little Water Medicine Society of the Seneca, Norman, OK: Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-3447-X.