The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians

by Paul Radin

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691019169
• ISBN13: 9780691019161
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Vanishing Winnebago??

This book is excellent for the student of literature and mythology..not an easy read, but a profound one. As far as the other review that refers to the vanished Winnebago.. NOT.. the tribe is alive and well in two branches in Nebraska and Wisconsin.