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The Native American Sweat Lodge : History and legends/ by Joseph Bruchac. - California : The Crossing Press Freedom, 1993. - 145 stron ; 23 cm.

Author

Bruchac Joseph (1942- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje dydaktyczne

Subject

Indianie Szałasy Obyczaje i zwyczaje Rytuały i ceremonie Uzdrowienia Stany Zjednoczone (USA) Ameryka Północna

Genre/Form

Publikacje dydaktyczne

Domain

Etnologia i antropologia kulturowa Historia Kultura i sztuka

Instytucja

The Crossing Press Freedom

Bibliografia na stronach 141-145.

Bruchac has written many books about Native American legends both for adults and children, although more successfully for the latter than the former. In spite of the fact that this succinct history of the sweat lodge is written in Bruchac's characteristically simplistic style, it will hold the interest of adult readers. Bruchac presents a thrifty and cogent explanation of the function and role of sweat lodges both historically and in the present. Sweat lodges are part of nearly every native North American culture and have always played an important role in rituals of healing, preparation, and prayer. Bruchac discusses the repression of "sweats," first by the Spaniards and later by the U.S. government, and notes the hypocrisy of these bans, since saunas and other therapeutic steam baths were popular across Europe for centuries. It is with considerable irony that Bruchac then describes the current fad for sweat lodges among non-Indians, particularly in the men's movement.

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