Cry of the Eagle: Encounters With a Cree Healer - Couverture souple

Young, David; Ingram, Grant; Swartz, Lisa

 
9780802068200: Cry of the Eagle: Encounters With a Cree Healer
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802068200 ISBN 13 : 9780802068200
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1990

Synopsis

After a vision in which he beheld himself as a leader in the revitalization of native medicine and culture, medicine man Russell WIllier began to share his healing practices and world view with three anthropologists. In this volume they describe how WIllier treats chronic, stress-related condition and physiological dysfunctions with herbal remedies, sweat-lodge therapy, religious ceremony, and other techniques.

Cry of the Eagle also discusses the process by which the anthropologists experienced the medicine man's work. That process required change in both Willier and his observers. One of the most powerful events in their three-year association occurred when David Young's wife suddenly became critically ill. In the hospital her condition quickly worsened, and doctors were unable to diagnose the problem. Young surreptitiously brought the medicine man to the hospital, where a combination of native remedies and Western medical techniques worked together to restore her health.

Young, Ingram, and Swartz describe a process of shared vision and mutual change. They provide a rare insight into an aspect of native culture little known to the outside world.

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À propos des auteurs

David E. Young is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Cry of the Eagle: Encounters with a Cree Healer (University of Toronto Press, 1990).



Grant Ingram was a graduate student in anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.



Lisa Swartz has taught in the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802068200
ISBN 13 
9780802068200
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
145
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780802027160: Cry of the Eagle: Encounter with a Cree Healer

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0802027164 ISBN 13 :  9780802027160
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1989
Couverture rigide