Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious TraditionsIn 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 areas, from the Northeast to the Southwest, the Southeast to the Northwest, the book offers "thick" descriptions of traditional Native American medical and religious beliefs and practices, demonstrating that for Native Americans medicine and religion are two sides of the same coin: a coherent and holistic system in which supernaturalism acts as a motor in healing. |
Contents
Map of Indian Tribes of North America | 6 |
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN | 23 |
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE ON THE NORTHWEST | 43 |
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Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North ... Åke Hultkrantz No preview available - 1997 |
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Algonkians American Indian animals Arapaho Athapascans beast gods beliefs Black Elk blessed Blessingway called candidate causes ceremony Cherokee Coast Salish common Cree culture curing dead death disease doctor dream Euroamerican feathers ghosts groups guardian spirits healers healing HEALTH AND MEDICINE Hultkrantz human hunting ideas individual instance intrusion Krause Lakota land latter living lodge medicine man's medicine men medicine societies midewiwin Mount Saint Elias myths Native American Native North Navajo North America northern Northwest Coast objects Ojibway particular patient patient's body pattern Pawnee performances peyote Pima and Papago Plains Indians prayer Pueblo Indians religion religious rites ritual sacred séance Shaking Tent shaman Shoshoni sick person singing Skadi social sometimes song soul loss Southwest sucking Sun Dance supernatural supernatural power sweat sweat lodge symbolism taboo tion Tlingit Traditional Medicine trance tribal tribes vision quest visionary Washo Western witchcraft witches woman women yuwipi Zuni