Kiowa Belief and Ritual

Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.¿
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List of contents

List of Illustrations
Kiowa Pronunciations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ethnographic Studies of Plains Indian Religions
1. Kiowa History, 1832–1868
2. Kiowa Beliefs and Concepts of the Universe
3. Acquiring, Maintaining, and Manifesting Power
4. Bundles, Shields, and Societies
5. The Kiowa Sun Dance
Conclusion: The Collapse of the Horse and Buffalo Culture and the Sun Dance
Appendix: Kiowa Sun Dance Chronology, 1833–1890
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He is the editor of Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family (Nebraska, 2021) and author of Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity (Nebraska, 2018), among other books.
 

Summary

Reconstructs Kiowa cosmology during the height of the horse and buffalo culture from field notes pertaining to cosmology, visions, shamans, sorcery, dream shields, tribal bundles, and the now-extinct Sun Dance ceremony. These topics are interpreted through the Kiowa concept of a power force permeating the universe.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Kracht, Benjamin R Kracht, Benjamin R. Kracht
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2017
• EAN: 9781496200532
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0053-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians; Studies in the Anthropology of; Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians; Studies in the Anthropology of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous