Standing ground : Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990 /

This 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 ethnography that features dialogue as its central theoretical trope. Buckley...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buckley, Thomas C. T. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2002.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp695
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction and Note on Orthography; 1. The Yurok Reservation; 2. Double Helix; 3. Native Authors; 4. Seeing with Their Own Eyes; 5. Doctors; 6. The GO-Road; 7. The One Who Flies All around the World; 8. The World; 9. Melancholy; 10. The Shaker Church; 11. Jump Dance; Notes; References; Acknowledgments of Permissions; Index.