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THE ROAD OF LIFE AND DEATH
A RITUAL DRAMA OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS |
| By: |
Paul Radin |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691019169 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691019161 |
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| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 1991 |
| Series: |
Bollingen Series (General) |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
The Medicine Rite is performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult. Presenting a transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, this work captures a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
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