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The Medicine Men Oglala
Sioux Ceremony and Healing
Thomas H. Lewis, Cloth: 1990,,,CIP.LC
,0-8032-2890-2 Paper: 1990,viii,219,CIP.LC 89-22508,0-8032-7939-6
Studies in the Anthropology
of North American Indians Series
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For the residents of the Pine Ridge
reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care
is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional
practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a
ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism
of the Native American Church, and other medicines,
or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist
and medical anthropologist, describes those practices
as he encountered them in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
During many months he studied with leading practitioners.
He describes the healers, their techniques, personal
histories and qualities, the problems addressed and
results obtained and examines past as well as present
practices. The result is an engrossing account that
may profoundly affect the way readers view the dynamics
of therapy for mind and body. Retired from the National
Naval Medical Center, where he served as chief of psychiatry,
and from Georgetown University School of Medicine, Thomas
H. Lewis now lives in Montana.
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