All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual

by David C. Posthumus

Book Overview

In All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas' religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn," particularly the dual notions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, that includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496230396
• ISBN13: 9781496230393
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"