TY - JOUR
AU - STURTEVANT, WILLIAM C.
AB -  Native Religious Traditions. EARLE HWAUGH and K. DAD PRITHIPAULi e&- SR Supplements 8. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University press, 1979. xii - - PP-9 figures, I242 appendix, index* $5.00 (paper)WlLLlAM C. STURTEVANT Smithsonian lnstitution This volume comprises some of the proceedings of a 1977 symposium sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, University of Alberta. It i s a very mixed bag. About two-thirds of the book consists of scholarly papers on North American Indian religions: Ake Hultkrantz sets out rather simplistic general typologies of narratives and rituals t o illustrate the supposed advantages of an approach from comparative religion; Joseph Epes Brown offers a brief literary commentary on a few published Algonquian, Navajo, and Kathlamet texts; Karl W . Luckert suggests that an adequate ”approach t o Navajo mythology” can use Western European “conceptualizations of time and space”; Sam D. Gill describes the iconography, mythological significance, and use of the Navajo Whirling Log sandpainting; J. W. E. Newbery describes what he identifies as a modern Ontario Ojibwa and Cree sacred pipe ceremony; and John C. Hellson reconstructs from aged informants a description of the obsolete Blackfoot Pigeon society. The remaining one-third of the volume gives nearly verbatim transcripts 
TI - Native Religious Traditions. EARLE H. WAUGH and K. DAD PRITHIPAUL, eds
JF - American Ethnologist
DO - 10.1525/ae.1981.8.4.02a00210
DA - 1981-11-01
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SP - 818
VL - 8
IS - 4
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