A01=Ruth Murray Underhill
americans
Author_Ruth Murray Underhill
avoidance
belief systems
beliefs
burial
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Category=JHM
Category=QRRT
Category=QRY
ceremonialism
ceremony
dead
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fear
geography
ghost dance
historical
history
hunting and gathering
medicine man
native peoples
north america
peyote
planting ceremonies
powers
religion
religious practices
ritual
shaman
spirits
spiritualism
spirituality
supernatural
supernaturalism
war
welfare
Product details
- ISBN 9780226841670
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 1972
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Among the topics considered in this classic study are world origins and supernatural powers, attitudes toward the dead, the medicine man and shaman, hunting and gathering rituals, war and planting ceremonies, and newer religions, such as the Ghost Dance and the Peyote Religion.
"The distinctive contribution of [Red Man's Religion] is the treatment of topics, the insight and the perspective of the author, and her ability to transmit these to the reader. . . . Trais and aspects of religion are not treated as abstract entitites, to be enumerated and summated, assigned a geographic distribution, and then abandoned. No page is a dry recital; each is an illumination. Insight and wisdom are framed in poetic prose. An offering of information in such a medium merits gratitude."—American Anthropologist
"The distinctive contribution of [Red Man's Religion] is the treatment of topics, the insight and the perspective of the author, and her ability to transmit these to the reader. . . . Trais and aspects of religion are not treated as abstract entitites, to be enumerated and summated, assigned a geographic distribution, and then abandoned. No page is a dry recital; each is an illumination. Insight and wisdom are framed in poetic prose. An offering of information in such a medium merits gratitude."—American Anthropologist
