Omaha Secret Societies / R. F. Fortune.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fortune, R. F., author.

Series:

Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1969]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the Omaha tribe as it was stratified into four classes as determined by title held in the paternal line; priests, chiefs, doctors, and doctoring society members and non-privileged persons.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. General Sketch of Omaha Society

III. The Sacred Amongst the Omah

IV. The Secret Societies

V. Further Individual Accounts of Religious Experience

VI. Further Societies

VII. Religious Practices

VIII. Tales and Legends Bearing on the Religion or the Secret Societies

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88745-0

OCLC:

1100458753