All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual Contributor(s): Posthumus, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 080329994X ISBN-13: 9780803299948 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - General |
Dewey: 978.004 |
LCCN: 2017044990 |
Series: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 294 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas' religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn," particularly the dual notions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, which includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives demonstrates how a new animist framework can connect and articulate otherwise disparate and obscure elements of Lakota ethnography. Stripped of its problematic nineteenth-century social evolutionary elements and viewed as an ontological or spiritual alternative, this reevaluated concept of animism for a twenty-first-century sensibility provides a compelling lens through which traditional Lakota mythology, dreams and visions, and ceremony may be productively analyzed and more fully understood. |