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The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing

The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing

Paperback

Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians

Native American History

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0803279396
ISBN13: 9780803279391
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Mar 1 1992
Pages: 221
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, describes those practices as he encountered them in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

During many months he studied with leading practitioners. He describes the healers--their techniques, personal histories and qualities, the problems addressed and results obtained--and examines past as well as present practices. The result is an engrossing account that may profoundly affect the way readers view the dynamics of therapy for mind and body.

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Native American History