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Shamanic healing and ritual drama : health and medicine in native North American religious traditions / Åke Hultkrantz.
In this pioneering work one of the world's leading experts on Native American traditions offers a detailed survey of Native American practices and beliefs regarding health, medicine, and religion. In contrast to the sharp Euro-American division between medicine and religion, Native American medical beliefs and practices can only be assessed, says the author, in their relation to their religious ideas. Spanning the full length and breadth of Native North American cultural.
Areas, from the Northeast to the Southwest, the Southeast to the Northwest, the book offers "thick" descriptions of traditional Native American medical and religious beliefs and practices, demonstrating that for Native Americans medicine and religion are two sides of the same coin: a coherent and holistic system in which supernaturalism acts as a motor in healing.
Record details
- ISBN: 0824511883
- ISBN: 9780824511883
- ISBN: 0824516648
- ISBN: 9780824516642
- Physical Description: xv, 197 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Crossroad, 1992.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Foreword / Martin E. Marty -- 1. The Cultural and Religious Setting -- 2. Traditional Medicine in the Northeast. The Care of the Sick: A Seventeenth-Century Document. Health, Well-being, and the Causes of Disease. Doctors and Diviners. The Shaking Tent Performance. Midewiwin as a Doctors' Organization -- 3. Traditional Medicine on the Northwest Coast. Health, Good Living, and Passages of Life among the Tlingit. The Nature of Disease. The Tlingit Shaman and His Healing Practices. The Healed Healer among the Coast Salish. The Spirit Canoe Curing Ceremony -- 4. Traditional Medicine on the Plains. The Eastern Shoshoni. Shoshoni Passages of Life. Shoshoni Ideas of Health and Well-being. Causes of Disease. The Shoshoni Medicine Man. Individual and Collective Aspects of Curing. Methods of Professional Curing. Shoshoni Nonprofessional Folk Medicine. Curing among the Arapaho. The Arapaho Spirit Lodge. The Pawnee: The Blessing of the Animal Lodges -- 5. Traditional Medicine in the Southeast. The Mythical Introduction of Diseases. The Immediate Causes of Disease. The Cherokee Doctor. The Treatment of Diseases -- 6. Traditional Medicine in the Southwest. The Zuni Religious System. Collectivistic Healing among the Zuni: The Medicine Societies. Zuni Ways of Curing. Zuni Symbolism of Ritual Curing. The Navajo World. Navajo Themes of Morality, Philosophy, and Health. Cosmological Healing among the Navajo. The Blessingway Ceremony. The Holyway Ceremonies. The Evilway Ceremonies. The Pima and Papago of the Southwestern Deserts. Different Diseases for Native Americans and Whites -- 7. Medicine in New Religions. Peyote Curing. The Sweat Lodge Movement -- 8. Transcultural Medical Relations: The Interaction Between Native and Euroamerican Curing Methods. Indian Criticism and Tolerance of Euroamerican Medicine. The Expansion of Native American Medicine into White Society. A Field of Difficulties. The Concepts and Practices of Native Medicine. The General Setting of Medical Beliefs and Practices.
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- Indians of North America > Religion.
Indians of North America > Medicine.
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene.
Traditional medicine > North America.
Shamanism > North America.
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- 4 of 4 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | E 98 .R3 H825 1992 | 2240505 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | E 98 .R3 H825 1992 | 257421 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | INDIAN # 223 | 275281 | Deloria Collection | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | PNW E 98 .R3 H825 1992 | 247680 | PNW | Reshelving | - |
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