Standing ground : Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990 / Thomas Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Thomas C. T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yurok Indians--Religion.

Yurok Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Note on Orthography

PART ONE. Contexts

PART TWO. Testimony

PART THREE. Understandings

Notes

References

Acknowledgments of Permissions

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-312) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612359576

9781282359574

1282359576

9780520936447

0520936442

9781597349178

1597349178

OCLC:

52841513