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The writer and the shaman : a morphology of the American Indian

Print Book, English, [1973]
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, [1973]
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780151995608, 0151995605
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American, projection of renaissance England
The warrior theocracy
Missionaries, Demonologists, and Puritan captives
The enlightenment and the Indians
Enlightenment zealots and romantics
The tradition of benevolence fro the seventeenth to the nineteenth century
The tradition of progressivist hatred in the nineteenth century
Listeners to the Indian in the nineteenth century
The literature of reverence
The last decades and poetic ethnography
Indian literature
Notes on the future
Translation of I letterati e lo sciamano
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."