Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520233898)

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."

Author: Thomas Buckley
ISBN-10: 0520233891
ISBN-13: 9780520233898
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/23/2002
Pages: 337
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.88d