Time Before Deception (Paperback)

Clear Light

ISBN 10: 0940666898 / ISBN 13: 9780940666894

Published by Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe, 1998

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Paperback. What was the real significance of "war paint", of the rituals of shamans, of the mysterious communion with animals, plants, mountains, and wild waters? Looking beneath the surface of tribal communication, this book is the first to focus on the myriad forms of traditional expression that were the outward manifestation of a sophisticated ethical and spiritual ecology that existed for millennia before contact with European culture. Cooper describes practices of tribal cultures world-wide and examines the communication ethic of the Dine (Navajo) of northern Arizona and the Shuswap people of British Columbia. As this world of indigenous meaning opens to us, so does the possibility that these groups may have originated from higher -- not more "primitive" -- cultures. In an age when we find advertising deceptive, entertainment violent and meaningless, and politics laced with corruption, we can learn rules for living from the deeper, ethically grounded communication of Indigenous Peoples. Looking beneath the surface of tribal communication, this book focuses on the myriad forms of traditional expression that were the outward manifestation of a sophisticated ethical and spiritual ecology that existed for millennia before contact with European culture. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time Before Deception (Paperback)
• Publisher: Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940666898
• ISBN 13: 9780940666894
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Attempts to show the rules, rituals and ethics of authentic indigenous communication before the arrival of white men in America

About the Author

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, National Humanities Medal Winner for the year 2000, spent her childhood on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and still lives in South Dakota. She is the mother of three children. Among her much-admired books is The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman, also reprinted as a Bison Book. Illustrator Oren Lyons is a chief of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation and a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.