Benjamin R. Kracht

Kiowa Belief and Ritual

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Produktbeschreibung

Benjamin Krachtâ s Kiowa Belief and Ritual, a collection of materials gleaned from Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field notes and augmented by Alice Marriottâ s field notes, significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781496232656
• ISBN-10: 1496232658
• Artikelnr.: 63001304

Autorenporträt

Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He is the editor of Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family (Nebraska, 2021) and author of Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity (Nebraska, 2018), among other books.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Kiowa Pronunciations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ethnographic Studies of Plains Indian Religions
1. Kiowa History, 1832–1868
2. Kiowa Beliefs and Concepts of the Universe
3. Acquiring, Maintaining, and Manifesting Power
4. Bundles, Shields, and Societies
5. The Kiowa Sun Dance
Conclusion: The Collapse of the Horse and Buffalo Culture and the Sun Dance
Appendix: Kiowa Sun Dance Chronology, 1833–1890
Notes
Bibliography
Index