All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual justice Joel Waters

Joel Waters

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Against an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas

This is a heartfelt story about memory

All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual justice Joel WatersIn 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, which includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives demonstrates how