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This Colorful, Richly Textured Account Of Spiritual Training And Practice Within An American Indian Social Network Emphasizes Narrative Over Analysis. Thomas Buckley's Foregrounding Of Yurok Narratives Creates One Major Level Of Dialogue In An Innovative Ethnography That Features Dialogue As Its Central Theoretical Trope. Buckley Places Himself In Conversation With Contemporary Yurok Friends And Elders, With Written Texts, And With Twentieth-century Anthropology As Well. He Describes Yurok Indian Spirituality As A Significant Field In Which Individual And Society Meet In Dialogue--cooperating, Resisting, Negotiating, Changing Each Other In Manifold Ways. 'culture,' Here, Is Not A Thing But A Process, An Emergence Through Time. Part One Contexts -- 1. The Yurok Reservation -- 2. Double Helix -- 3. Native Authors -- Part Two Testimony -- 4. Seeing With Their Own Eyes -- 5. Doctors -- 6. The Go-road -- Part Three Understandings -- 7. The One Who Flies All Around The World -- 8. The World -- 9. Melancholy -- 10. The Shaker Church -- 11. Jump Dance. Thomas Buckley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 295-312) And Index.

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Author

Thomas C. T. Buckley

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282359574

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Religion