The reluctant pilgrim : a skeptic's journey into native mysteries / / Roger Welsch
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| Autore: |
Welsch Roger L.
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| Titolo: |
The reluctant pilgrim : a skeptic's journey into native mysteries / / Roger Welsch
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 204.092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Spiritual biography - United States |
| Anthropologists - Religious life - United States | |
| Folklorists - Religious life - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. A Lesson from Stones""; ""2. Lessons from People Who Know""; ""3. A Lesson from Elders""; ""4. Early Lessons""; ""5. Definitions and Distinctions""; ""6. The Lesson of the Skulls""; ""7. Resistance to the Irresistible""; ""8. The Lesson of the Dolmen""; ""9. A Lesson from the Pipe""; ""10. The Lesson of the Feather""; ""11. The Dubious Eye of Coyote""; ""12. A Lesson from Poop""; ""13. The Pilgrim""; ""14. Establishing a Cosmic Buffer Zone"" |
| ""15. A Lesson from Touching the Fire""""16. Lessons from the Zealot""; ""17. Lessons from Real Shock and Awe""; ""18. Lessons of Hubris""; ""19. Lessons from Mother Corn and Father Buffalo""; ""20. Lessons from the Nahurac""; ""21. Where Lessons Are Lost""; ""22. Lessons of Place""; ""23. Lessons from Lines""; ""24. Lessons from the Fourth Hill""; ""25. Lessons from Lessons""; ""26. Lessons from the Muse""; ""27. Lessons from the Power""; ""28. A Lesson from Prayer""; ""29. Still More Lessons from Lessons""; ""30. Lessons in Brief""; ""The Lessons of Others""; ""About Roger Welsch"" | |
| ""Other Works by Roger Welsch"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, "like the sun and moon." According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. "I make my request of the stones and they are my intercessors," Brave Buffalo explained. Moments later, another friend appeared at Welsch's door bearing yet another unusual gift: a perfectly round white stone found on top of a mesa in Colorado. So began Welsch's lesson from stones, gifts that always presented themselves unexpectedly: du |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The reluctant pilgrim |
| ISBN: | 0-8032-7425-4 |
| 0-8032-7427-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460155003321 |
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