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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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The Road of Life and Death, Paul Radin, Mark Van Doren
- Language
- Released
- 1973
- Binding
- (Hardcover),
- Book condition
- Very Good
- Price
- €34.39
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- Title
- The Road of Life and Death
- Subtitle
- A Ritual Drama of the American Indians
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Paul Radin, Mark Van Doren
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Released
- 1973
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 345
- ISBN10
- 0691098190
- ISBN13
- 9780691098197
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Writing, Mourning, Criticism, Narration, Indigenous Tribes, Reincarnation, Printing, Gratitude, Uncertainty, Disappointment, Fasting, Human Nature, Longevity, Prisoners of War, Exegesis, Mechanization
- Description
- 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.