Cosmology and Moral Community in the Lakota Sun Dance: Reconceptualizing J. R. Walker's Account

ISBN-13: 9780367725587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 144 str.

Fritz Detwiler

Opis

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.