The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas H. LewisSeries:Studies in the Anthropology of North American IndiansPublish date:1992-03-01Pages:221
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803279391ISBN-10:803279396UPC:9780803279391Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.22 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC94SC5HP8
The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing
For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist,...
Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803279391ISBN-10:803279396UPC:9780803279391Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.22 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC94SC5HP8
Retired from the National Naval Medical Center, where he served as chief of psychiatry, and from Georgetown University School of Medicine, Thomas H. Lewis now lives in Montana.
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