by Ruth Murray Underhill
University of Chicago Press, 1972
Cloth: 978-0-226-84166-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-84167-0 | eISBN: 978-0-226-21768-0
Library of Congress Classification E98.R3U57
Dewey Decimal Classification 299.7

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Among the topics considered in this classic study are world origins and supernatural powers, attitudes toward the dead, the medicine man and shaman, hunting and gathering rituals, war and planting ceremonies, and newer religions, such as the Ghost Dance and the Peyote Religion.

"The distinctive contribution of [Red Man's Religion] is the treatment of topics, the insight and the perspective of the author, and her ability to transmit these to the reader. . . . Trais and aspects of religion are not treated as abstract entitites, to be enumerated and summated, assigned a geographic distribution, and then abandoned. No page is a dry recital; each is an illumination. Insight and wisdom are framed in poetic prose. An offering of information in such a medium merits gratitude."—American Anthropologist