Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico - Softcover

Underhill, Ruth Murray

 
9780226841670: Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226841677 ISBN 13: 9780226841670
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1972

Inhaltsangabe

Among the topics considered in this classic study are world origins and supernatural powers, attitudes toward the dead, the medicine man and shaman, hunting and gathering rituals, war and planting ceremonies, and newer religions, such as the Ghost Dance and the Peyote Religion.

"The distinctive contribution of [Red Man's Religion] is the treatment of topics, the insight and the perspective of the author, and her ability to transmit these to the reader. . . . Trais and aspects of religion are not treated as abstract entitites, to be enumerated and summated, assigned a geographic distribution, and then abandoned. No page is a dry recital; each is an illumination. Insight and wisdom are framed in poetic prose. An offering of information in such a medium merits gratitude."—American Anthropologist

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1972
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226841677
ISBN 13 
9780226841670
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
344
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