TY  - BOOK
AU  - Speck,Frank G.
TI  - Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House
T2  - Anniversary Collection
SN  - 9781512813791
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Native American Studies
KW  - Religious Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; LIST OF PLATES --; LIST OF TABLES --; INTRODUCTION --; PHONETIC NOTE --; PART ONE. RELIGIOUS FRAMEWORK OF CAYUGA CULTURE --; I. THE SOUR SPRINGS LONG HOUSE --; II. COMPLEMENTARY DUAL FUNCTIONING OF THE MOIETIES AND SEX DIVISIONS IN CAYUGA CEREMONIAL-SOCIAL ORGANIZATION --; III CONTROLLING SPIRIT FORCES --; IV THE ANNUAL CEREMONIAL CYCLE --; V. CEREMONIAL OFFICIARIES, FOODS, INSTRUMENTS, AND COSTUMES --; PART TWO. THE MIDWINTER CEREMONY --; VI. TIMING AND PREPARATORY RITES OF THE MIDWINTER CEREMONY --; VII. THE MEDICINE SOCIETIES --; VIII. THE RESTRICTED MEDICINE SOCIETIES AND THEIR RITES --; IX. THE UNRESTRICTED SOCIETIES; CURING RITES AND DANCES --; X. THE FOUR SACRED CEREMONIAL RITES --; XI. WORSHIP RITES ADDRESSED TO FOOD SPIRITS --; XII. SOCIAL DANCES --; XIII. FAMILY CONDOLENCE RITE OF THE SOUR SPRINGS BAND --; FINAL THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS IN RETROSPECT --; APPENDIX I --; APPENDIX II --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; PLATES; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution. In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the Midwinter Ceremony, the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of life and health, performed in long houses on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. Collaborating with Alexander General (Deskáheh), the noted Cayuga chief, Speck describes vividly the rites and dances giving thanks to all spiritual entities. Of special interest are the medicine societies that not only prescribed herbs but used powerfully evocative masks in treating the underlying causes of sickness
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818796
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