Hands Feel It: Healing and Spirit Presence Among a Northern Alaskan People

by Edith Turner

Book Overview

In a treeless land far north of the Arctic Circle, the I\u00f1upiat live immensely practical lives, yet they have a profound belief in the spirit world. For them, everything--whether living being or inanimate object--has a spirit. This outlook reflects their sense of the connectedness of all life.

The Hands Feel It is the account of one person's experience among the I\u00f1upiat. Anthropologist Edith Turner records occurrences of healing,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875805736
• ISBN13: 9780875805733
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher