William K Powers: Yuwipi | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780803287105 | Yuwipi | Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual | William K Powers

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	1984
Fachbereich:	Völkerkunde
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Völkerkunde
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780803287105
ISBN-10:	0803287100
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Powers, William K
Auflage:	Revised edition
Hersteller:	University of Nebraska Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 134 x 8 mm
Von/Mit:	William K Powers
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.1984
Gewicht:	0,141 kg