Lakota Belief and Ritual

by James R. Walker, Raymond J. DeMallie (Editor), Elaine A. Jahner (Editor)

Overview

A work of prime importance...its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas.―Journal of American Folklore

Provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803297319
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	05/01/1991
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	369
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.86(d)
Lexile:	1170L (what's this?)

About the Author

Raymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute and a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, is the editor of James R. Walker's Lakota Society and of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt, both available as Bison Books. Elaine A. Jahner, a professor of English at Dartmouth College, has edited Walker's Lakota Myth, also available in a Bison Books edition.