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The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians

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The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians - Radin, Paul
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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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The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians 1991, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691019161

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