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Shamanic healing and ritual drama : health and medicine in native North American religious traditions  Cover Image Book Book

Shamanic healing and ritual drama : health and medicine in native North American religious traditions

Hultkrantz, Åke. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 0824511883
  • ISBN: 9780824511883
  • ISBN: 0824516648
  • ISBN: 9780824516642
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 197 pages : map ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Crossroad, 1992.

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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.
Subject: 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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Lummi Library E 98 .R3 H825 1992 2240505 Stacks Reshelving -
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