BOOKS - Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990
Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990 - Thomas Buckley January 1, 2002 PDF  BOOKS
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Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990
Author: Thomas Buckley
Year: January 1, 2002
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 848 KB
Language: English

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 and "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. and "

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