Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico

Ruth Murray Underhill

ISBN 10: 0226841669 ISBN 13: 9780226841663

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1965

Synopsis

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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0226841669
• ISBN 13: 9780226841663
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311