The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians
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Book Overview
In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691019169
ISBN13:9780691019161
Release Date:April 1991
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Vanishing Winnebago??
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book is excellent for the student of literature and mythology..not an easy read, but a profound one. As far as the other review that refers to the vanished Winnebago.. NOT.. the tribe is alive and well in two branches in Nebraska and Wisconsin.
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