The Mide’wiwin

The Mide’wiwin

Walter James Hoffman

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Press Holdings International
Año de edición:
2005
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Religiones tribales
ISBN:
9781410222961
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The Midewiwin is the society of the Mide or Shamans, popularly designated as the Grand Medicine Society. It is found in many Algonkin tribes. Its ritual, and the traditions of Indian genesis and cosmogony, constitute a powerful religion.Originally published in 1891 in the Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Seventh Annual Report, 1885-1886.

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