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Krickeberg, Walter, 1885-1962.

Pre-Columbian American religions / Walter Krickeberg, Herman Trimborn, Werner Müller, Otto Zerries ; translated by Stanley Davis.

1st ed.

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, ©1968.

[5], 365 pages : 13 plates, maps ; 25 cm.

Four readable essays by two archaeologists and two social anthropologists summarize knowledge gained from written sources, archaeological finds, and studies of present-day inhabitants concerning the pre-Columbian religions of Mesoamerica, South Central American and Andean civilizations, North America except for the Arctic, and primitive South America and the West Indies.

History of religion series

History of religion (Phoenix Press (London, England))

Indians -- Religion.

Festschriften.

Davis, Stanley, translator.

Religionen des alten Amerika. English

Translation of Die Religionen des alten Amerika.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index (p. 359-365).

Walter Krickeberg : Mexico ; Maya territory -- Hermann Trimborn : South Central America and the northern Andes ; The central Andes -- Werner Müller : North America in 1600 ; The lonely drum : the Canadian Algonquin and Athapascans ; Supreme being and big house : the Delaware and Algonquin of the Atlantic seabord ; Dream, vision and tradition : the Algonquin of the Great Lakes ; Twin gods and a dual world : the Iroquois of Lake Ontario ; The kingdom of the gods in the middle : the Zuñi of New Mexico ; Death and rebirth : the Kwakiutl of British Columbia ; The creator and his adversary : the central Californians -- Otto Zerries : Supreme Being, culture hero and ancestor ; Spirits and rituals of the hunt ; Vegetation gods and fertility rites ; headhunting and cannibalism ; The soul and ancestor worship ; Representations of supernatural beings ; Shamanism.

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