Standing Ground

Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990

By: Thomas Buckley

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Paperback | 23 December 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its central theoretical trope. Buckley places himself in conversation with contemporary Yurok friends and elders, with written texts, and with twentieth-century anthropology as well. He describes Yurok Indian spirituality as "a significant field in which individual and society meet in dialogue--cooperating, resisting, negotiating, changing each other in manifold ways. 'Culture, ' here, is not a thing but a process, an emergence through time."

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"The most in-depth, complex, and analytically sophisticated portrayal of Yurok spirituality ever written by an anthropologist [and] the most important ethnographic work about the Yurok in general since Kroeber's work in the early twentieth century."-Les W. Field, author of The Grimace of Macho Raton "Its description of Yurok religious practice in recent times is both sympathetic and insightful, providing an interweaving series of narratives and interpretations.... The author makes an eloquent case for cultural continuity."-Michael Harkin, author of The Heiltsuks

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contexts
The Yurok Reservation
Double Helix
Native Authors
Testimony
Seeing with Their Own Eyes
Doctors
The GO-Road
Understandings
The One Who Flies All around the World
The World
Melancholy
The Shaker Church
Jump Dance
Notes
References
Acknowledgments of Permissions
Index
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Standing Ground

Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990

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