Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Traditions (Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions)
By Ake Hultkrantz.
Description
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" descrip...
ISBN(s)
0824511883, 9780824511883
