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Kiowa belief and ritual / Benjamin R. Kracht.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the anthropology of North American IndiansPublisher: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, Bloomington, in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496201461
  • 1496201469
  • 1496200535
  • 9781496200532
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kiowa belief and ritual.DDC classification:
  • 978.004/97492 23
LOC classification:
  • E99.K5
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Contents:
Introduction: Ethnographic studies of Plains Indian religions -- Kiowa history: 1832-1868 -- Kiowa beliefs and concepts of the universe -- Acquiring, maintaining, and manifesting power -- Bundles, shields, and societies -- The Kiowa Sun Dance -- Conclusion: the collapse of the horse and buffalo culture and the Sun Dance -- Appendix: Kiowa Sun Dance chronology, 1833-1890.
Summary: "Brings together materials gleaned from the Laboratory of Anthropology (Santa Fe) fieldnotes, augmented by Alice Marriott's fieldnotes, to significantly enhance the existing literature concerning Plains Indians religions."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Ethnographic studies of Plains Indian religions -- Kiowa history: 1832-1868 -- Kiowa beliefs and concepts of the universe -- Acquiring, maintaining, and manifesting power -- Bundles, shields, and societies -- The Kiowa Sun Dance -- Conclusion: the collapse of the horse and buffalo culture and the Sun Dance -- Appendix: Kiowa Sun Dance chronology, 1833-1890.

"Brings together materials gleaned from the Laboratory of Anthropology (Santa Fe) fieldnotes, augmented by Alice Marriott's fieldnotes, to significantly enhance the existing literature concerning Plains Indians religions."--Provided by publisher.

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