In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.
| ISBN: | 9780691019161 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 1992 |
| Author: | Paul Radin |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Series: | Bollingen Series |
| Genres: |
Indigenous peoples Social and cultural history |