Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House

Frank G. Speck (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

1950
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-1-5128-1379-1 (ISBN)

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During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution. In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the Midwinter Ceremony, the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of life and health, performed in long houses on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario.

Collaborating with Alexander General (Deskáheh), the noted Cayuga chief, Speck describes vividly the rites and dances giving thanks to all spiritual entities. Of special interest are the medicine societies that not only prescribed herbs but used powerfully evocative masks in treating the underlying causes of sickness.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	Anniversary Collection
Zusatzinfo	16 illus.
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5128-1379-6 / 1512813796
ISBN-13	978-1-5128-1379-1 / 9781512813791
Zustand	Neuware