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Washo shamans and peyotists : religious conflict in an American Indian tribe / Edgar E. Siskin.

Title
Washo shamans and peyotists : religious conflict in an American Indian tribe / Edgar E. Siskin.
Author
Siskin, Edgar E., 1907?-
Publication
Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, c1983.

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Description
xxii, 236 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Peyotism > Nevada
  • Shamanism > Nevada
  • Peyotism > California
  • Shamanism > California
  • Washoe Indians > Religion
  • Washoe mythology
  • Washoe mythology
  • Indians of North America > Nevada > Religion
  • Indian mythology > Nevada
  • Indians of North America > California > Religion
  • Indian mythology > California
Note
  • Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1941) which had title: The Impact of the peyote cult upon shamanism among the Washo Indians.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-229) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Sketch of Washo culture -- The nature of Washo shamanism -- The affiliations of Washo shamanism -- Washo peyotism -- The clash between shamanism and peyotism.
ISBN
0874802237 :
LCCN
^^^83014573^
OCLC
  • 9785183
  • SCSB-12714874
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library