Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850–1990

Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850–1990
ISBN-10
0520936442
ISBN-13
9780520936447
Category
History
Pages
337
Language
English
Published
2002-12-23
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Thomas Buckley

Description

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 "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."

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