The Road of Life and Death

The Road of Life and Death
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 0691019169
ISBN-13 : 9780691019161
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Book Synopsis The Road of Life and Death by : Paul Radin

Download or read book The Road of Life and Death written by Paul Radin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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