Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians

by Paul Radin (Editor), Mark van Doren (Foreword)

In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.

345 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1945

About the author

He was an American cultural anthropologist and folklorist.

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