The road of life and death : a ritual drama of the American Indians
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The road of life and death : a ritual drama of the American Indians
(Bollingen series, 5)(Mythos)
Princeton University Press, c1973
- : pbk
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In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.
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