"A much needed book. It not only provides the proper orientation to its material, but its humanistic approach is more perceptive and illuminating than technical scholarship." —Theodore H. Gaster, Columbia University
This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens's "Career of the Medicine Man". The second section concentrates on the theoretical and contains Benjamin Lee Whorf's "American Indian Model of the Universe" and chapters on Indian metaphysics, among other things. In addition to an introductory essay on the Indian's stance towards reality, the editors have contributed chapters entitled "The Clown's Way" and "An American Indian View of Death".
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Dennis Tedlock is McNulty Professor of English and Research Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Tedlock is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Thirty years after my birth was the time when I began to be a swanassu (medicine-man). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Thirty years after my birth was the time when I began to be a swanassu (medicine-man). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wakan Tanka, New York, Bureau of American Ethnology, Annual Report, Thunder Birds, Kachina Village, Santa Rosa, Black Elk, Kachina Society, Taku Skanskan, New Mexico, Sun Father, American Indian, Made People, Dry Food People, Spotted Eagle, Supreme Being, Supreme Creator, The Peyote Way, Thunder Being, University of Chicago Press, Columbia University Press, Journal of American Folklore, Native American Church, Rainmaker Priests New!
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- The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian: Life, Ways, Acculturation and the Peyote Cult by Paul Radin in Front Matter, and page 247
- Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association (Number 43) by Leslie A. White in Front Matter, and page 74
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- Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit by Antonia Mills in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- DAYS FROM A DREAM (Folklore and Society) by Dennis Tedlock in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Native American Worldviews by Jerry H. Gill in Back Matter
- The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine by Barbara Tedlock Ph.D. in Front Matter
- Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America by Alfred Cave in Back Matter
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