Lakota Society

Walker, James R.

ISBN 10: 0803297378 / ISBN 13: 9780803297371

Verlag: Bison Books, 1992

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00097426789

Inhaltsangabe:

<div>As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. <i>Lakota Society</i> presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his syntheses dealing with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring time.</div>

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: <div>Raymond J. DeMallie is a professor of anthropology and director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University. Other volumes of James R. Walker's Lakota documents also available as Bison Books are <i>Lakota Belief and Ritual</i>, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner, and <i>Lakota Myth</i>, edited by Elaine A. Jahner.</div>

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lakota Society
Verlag: Bison Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good