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Northern Paiute shamanism revisited
Anthropos • 74 (1/2) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 11-24
By: Olofson, Harold.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work, is based on research done over a period of eight weeks on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation at Nixon, Nevada, in the summer of 1965. The data collected were elicited primarily from one major informant, William Paddy, a native of Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Idaho. This paper is offered not as a criticism of earlier works on shamanism by Lowie, Kelly, Steward, and Park, but as an addition to it. This document describes …'the two concepts of 'power', the prevalence of power and 'power specialties', the thwarting of the shamanic call, the use of the eagle feather in the pillowcase to prompt and test power dreams, the power quest (as seen in myth), 'obedience' or 'empathy tasks' in curing sessions, the importance of the interpreter, varying techniques of curing (with emphasis on the work of the Pyramid Lake shaman Bobby Dodd), and current religious eclecticism ( p.23).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Revelation and divination
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Magical and mental therapy
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Northern Paiute
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- 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; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nixon, Nevada, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harold Olofson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 07021775
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paiute Indians