book chapter
The road of life and death: a ritual drama of the American Indian
Pantheon Books Inc. • New York • Published In 1945 • Pages: 49-77
By: Radin, Paul.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This selection, entitled 'II. Winnebago Civilization and the Medicine Rite,' has been abstracted from the author's work listed above, and attempts to show how three marked characteristics of Winnebago civilization--the conservatism of old cultural elements, the receptivity to new ideas, and the capacity for making new integrations--all interact with one another to create new cultural patterns in the Winnebago milieu. The illustration used to demonstrate these interacting processes is the evolution of the Medicine Rite. As background orientation to his study the author provides some limited data on social organization, religion, ritualism, and mythology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Organized ceremonial
- Literature
- Mythology
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Historical reconstruction
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Winnebago/Ho-Chunk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1965; John Beierle; 20098
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1908-1913
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1650-1913
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Wisconsin, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Paul Radin ; with a foreword by Mark Van Doren ...
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46000923
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ho Chunk Indians