Books by Paul Radin

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Based on the author's field work in 1908-13, this work on the Winnebago Indian tribe was originally published as an annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1923. It discusses Winnebago history, archaeology, material culture, social customs, education, funeral and burial rites, warfare, and shamanistic and medical practices.

The Medicine Rite is performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult. Presenting a transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, this work captures a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience.