Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power of Mvskoke Religion
- ISBN-10
- 0826323685
- ISBN-13
- 9780826323682
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 194
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-08
- Publisher
- UNM Press
- Authors
- David Jr. Lewis, Ann T. Jordan
Description
In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, Jordan traces the written accounts of Mvskoke religion from the eighteenth century to the present in order to historically contextualize Lewis's story and knowledge. This book is a collaboration between anthropologist and medicine man that provides a rare glimpse of a living religious tradition and its origins.
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- 2002
- 194 pages
- Paperback
- University of New Mexico Press
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