Lakota Belief and Ritual

Walker, James R.

ISBN 10: 0803297319 / ISBN 13: 9780803297319

Published by Bison Books, Lincoln and London, 1991

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Near Fine w/ 1/4" black mark fore edge, else Fine and unmarked. 327pp inc. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in a few b/w and color plates. 329 p.

Seller Inventory # 046848

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lakota Belief and Ritual
• Publisher: Bison Books, Lincoln and London
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803297319
• ISBN 13: 9780803297319
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A work of prime importance...its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas.―Journal of American Folklore

Provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis

About the Author

Raymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute and a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, is the editor of James R. Walker's Lakota Society and of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt, both available as Bison Books. Elaine A. Jahner, a professor of English at Dartmouth College, has edited Walker's Lakota Myth, also available in a Bison Books edition.