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This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its central theoretical trope. Buckley places himself in conversation with contemporary Yurok friends and elders, with written texts, and with twentieth-century...

"The Kachina, or rain deity, stands at the center of the Pueblo Indian religious experience. In the Pueblo belief, the kachina is responsible for the tribe's very survival, for without his intervention the crops will not grow, the cisterns will not be filled, the rivers will not flow." "In Kachinas in the Pueblo World, fourteen noted scholars, among them Fred Eggan, J.J. Brody, and Dennis Tedlock, examine the role of the kachina in the cultures of...

"Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation of symbols was revealed to me most vividly when I accompanied Ramón on the Huichol's annual ritual return to hunt the peyote in the sacred land of Wirikuta, in myth and probably in history the place...

A collection of twenty legends of the Hopi people, originating in the different tribes and relating tales of journeys, wars, heroic deeds, and tribal heroes.

The author tells the story of his life in the Mayan community of Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala, discussing how he came to be accepted by the villagers even though he was an outsider, and sharing details of the spiritual and philosophical traditions of the Mayan people.

"Twenty-first annual report of the Bureau of American Ethology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Gov. pr. off., 1903."