Cosmology and Moral Community in the Lakota Sun Dance - Fritz Detwiler

Cosmology and Moral Community in the Lakota Sun Dance

Reconceptualizing J. R. Walker's Account

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-74880-7 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
This book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker’s 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex—the most important Lakota ceremony--creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition.
Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker’s 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex – the most important Lakota ceremony – creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition.

The book uses Walker’s primary source to conduct a reading of the Sun Dance in its nineteenth-century context through the lenses of Lakota metaphysics, cosmology, ontology, and ethics. The author argues that the Sun Dance constitutes a cosmic ethical drama in which persons of all types – human and nonhuman – come together in reciprocal actions and relationships. Drawing on contemporary animist theory and a perspectivist approach that uses Lakota worldview assumptions as the basis for analysis, the book enables a richer understanding of the Sun Dance and its role in the Lakota moral world.

Offering a nuanced understanding that centers Lakota views of the sacred, this book will be relevant to scholars of religion and animism, and all those interested in Native American cultures and lifeways.

Fritz Detwiler is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Leadership at Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, USA. His specialty is Native American ontologies. Fritz is a charter member of the Society for the Study of Native American Sacred Traditions and has functioned as its treasurer and meeting coordinator since the society’s inception.

Introduction

1. The Lakota

2. Čhaŋgléška wakȟáŋ -- The Lakota World

3. Candidacy and individual and communal responsibilities, Part 1

4. Candidacy, Part 2, and the Journey to the Sun Dance site

5. The Preliminary Camp

6. The Ceremonial Camp, Days One and Two

7. The Ceremonial Camp, Days Three and Four

8. Concluding Thoughts

Appendix A: A Phonetic Guide

Appendix B: A Glossary of Lakota terms

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Vitality of Indigenous Religions
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-367-74880-0 / 0367748800
ISBN-13 978-0-367-74880-7 / 9780367748807
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