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Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Traditions (Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions) - Hardcover
In 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.
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.
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Native North Americans live in a holistic society that integrates health, medicine, and religion with the environment. Hultkrantz (comparative religion, Univ. of Stockholm) gives a historical overview to regional practices of healing and its interaction with modern medicine. The author's attempt to span the large number of ethnic groups within North America creates a fast-paced overview, which is uneven due to the lack of available writings. Herbs, spiritual trances, societal support, and confession are some of the healing practices discussed, along with brief case studies. Though many Native American groups are becoming acculturated, these holistic healing rituals will survive because of renewed interest in New Age religions. For larger Native American collections.
- L. Kriz, Sioux City P.L., Ia.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- L. Kriz, Sioux City P.L., Ia.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherCrossroad
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0824511883
- ISBN 13 9780824511883
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