Cosmology and moral community in the Lakota Sun Dance : reconceptualizing J. R. Walker's account / Fritz Detwiler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Detwiler, Fritz, 1947- author.

Series:

Vitality of indigenous religions.

Vitality of Indigenous Religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, J. R. (James R.), 1849-1926. The sun dance and other ceremonies of the Oglala division of the Teton Dakota.

Walker, J. R.

Oglala Indians--Great Plains--Rites and ceremonies.

Oglala Indians.

Oglala Indians--Great Plains--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker's 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex-the most important Lakota ceremony--creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition. The book uses Walker's primary source to conduct a reading of the Sun Dance in its nineteenth-century context through the lenses of Lakota metaphysics, cosmology, ontology and ethics. The author argues that the Sun Dance constitutes a cosmic ethical drama in which persons of all types - human and non-human -- come together in reciprocal actions and relationships. Drawing on contemporary animist theory and a perspectivist approach that uses Lakota worldview assumptions as the basis for analysis, the book enables a richer understanding of the Sun Dance and its role in the Lakota moral world. Offering a nuanced understanding that centers Lakota views of the sacred, this book will be relevant to scholars of religion and animism, and all those interested in Native American cultures and lifeways"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-316003-4

1-000-53621-1

1-000-53626-2

1-003-16003-4

9781003160038

OCLC:

1287134875