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Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual - Couverture souple

Powers, William K.

 
9780803287105: Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803287100 ISBN 13 : 9780803287105
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1984

Synopsis

A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance.

The author combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals often performed in conjunction with it, the vision quest and the sweat lodge. Wayne Runs Again, suffering from alcoholism and worried about his father's health, seeks out a shaman who, while bound in darkness, calls on supernatural beings to free him and to communicate. While the young man undergoes purification in a sweat lodge and waits on a hill for a vision, the community prays for him and his father. The ceremony serves not only to cure the sick but also to reaffirm the continuity of Oglala society.

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À propos de l'auteur

William K. Powers was adopted in boyhood by a Sioux chief and has spent thirty-five summers on the Pine Ridge, South Dakota, reservation. In an essay, he traces the origins of Yuwipi to Crazy Horse's spiritual mentor, the medicine man Horn Chips. Powers is the author of Oglala Religion (1977), also published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
1984
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803287100
ISBN 13 
9780803287105
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
113
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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