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Teaching spirits : understanding Native American religious traditions / Joseph Epes Brown with Emily Cousins.

Brown, Joseph Epes. (Author). Cousins, Emily, 1969- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0195138759 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780195138757 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 140 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; Oxford University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:
INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (p. (127)-132) AND INDEX.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-132) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Back to back -- Changeless at the heart of change : concepts of time and process -- Fixing a center : Native American sacred geography -- Silence, the word, and the sacred : evoking the sacred through language and song -- "There is no word for art" : the creative process -- Relationship and reciprocity : a metaphysics of nature -- unity of experience : purification, expansion, and identity through ritual.
Subject:
Indians of North America > Religion.
Indian mythology > North America.
Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies.
Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord > Religion.
Mythologie indienne d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord.
Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord > Rites et cérémonies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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