"The Ritual and Significance of the Winnebago Medicine Dance" is an important work on the religious practices of the Winnebago Native American tribe, written by anthropologist Paul Radin. Radin's ethnographic study of the Medicine Dance provides a detailed account of the ritual, its significance to the Winnebago people, and its role in maintaining social order. The author's work describes the Medicine Dance as a complex and highly symbolic ceremony, which involves the use of traditional songs, dances, and prayer to communicate with spirits and seek their aid in healing and other matters. He also highlights the importance of the Medicine Dance in Winnebago culture, both as a spiritual practice and as a means of reinforcing social ties and community solidarity.

Excerpt from The Culture of the Winnebago: As Described by Themselves The culture of the Winnebago, when I first began my study, can best be under stood if one realizes that it was marginal both to the Old aboriginal culture and to the American. This holds as true for that part of the tribe living in their original habitat, Wisconsin, as for that segment transferred to eastern Nebraska. The belief, sometimes expressed, that the Wisconsin division was more conserva tive than the Nebraska one, that it had retained the older culture more fully and in a more integrated form and that, finally, there were appreciable differences of vocabulary between the two, is wholly without foundation. As a matter of fact, the Nebraska division which comprised two thirds of the tribe, received annuities from the government and was living in a small compact area, was, be cause Of this fact, in a much better position to maintain the old culture intact than the Wisconsin, where the people were scattered over a fairly extensive region, where intercommunication was difficult and where the group was frequently on the edge of starvation. When I say that the Winnebago culture of 1908 was marginal to that which existed before the coming Of the French in 1634, I mean that the Older economic basis of their life was gone, their political structure irretrievably shattered and their ordinary ways of living a hopeless blend Of Indian and white. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Radin's timeless critique of anthropological theory and methods from a humanistic perspective provides an overall assessment of the field of ethnology, its shortcomings, errors, and misdirections.

In the tradition of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Robeson’s A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be—scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and prescient in its articulation of what it will take for Black Americans to be agents of change for the country as a whole.

According to Paul Robeson, Jr., the controversy about multiculturalism is in fact a profound ideological struggle over the values of our national culture. More than a question of the politics of race and gender, the debate is about whether melting-pot culture, the foundation of American life, should be replaced by a mosaic culture incorporating the values of the diverse groups that make up America's population. Robeson contends that the melting pot image has not worked for Blacks, who are excluded by definition from the blended culture of the ethnic American dream. Basing his argument in part on a rejection of the idea of radical individualism, the author suggests that the absence of a concept of group rights in American history places Blacks at a disadvantage. Radical individualism, as a philosophy, rejects the premise of civil rights for groups, which in modern parlance is termed "group tyranny." Robeson attacks mainstream American culture itself in a series of interrelated essays on his father (Paul Robeson), Clarence Thomas, liberals and conservatives, cultural diversity in the workplace, gender and minorities, Blacks and Jews, the Black middle class, and the university. What is needed, Robeson contends, is a new understanding of the nature of a culture of diversity - one that also celebrates Blacks, women, and other presently marginalized groups as visible and distinct actors.

Guy Huber, his wife Venice, and their spangled, be-furred, leather-swathed, neon-haired, sexually-ambiguous, nocturnal friends take to the downtown Manhattan club scene, lofts, boutiques, to a courtroom, and to a prison until Hollywood makes their escapades just a comedy

THE STORY: Alex DelFlavio is an ambitious downtown artist who plans to include sexually explicit photographs in his uptown show to advance his career. Nan Bemiss, the wife of a Republican senator who is running for the presidency and a gallery boar

This book contains the first English translations of The Origin of the Moral Sensations and Psychological Observations, the two most important works by the German philosopher Paul Rée. These essays present Rée’s moral philosophy, which influenced the ideas of his close friend Friedrich Nietzsche considerably. Nietzsche scholars have often incorrectly attributed to him arguments and ideas that are Rée’s and have failed to detect responses to Rée’s works in Nietzsche’s writings. Rée’s thinking combined two strands: a pessimistic conception of human nature, presented in the French moralists’ aphoristic style that would become a mainstay of Nietzsche’s own writings, and a theory of morality derived from Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Rée’s moral Darwinism was a central factor prompting Nietzsche to write On the Genealogy of Morals and the groundwork for much of today’s “evolutionary ethics.” In an illuminating critical introduction, Robin Small examines Rée’s life and work, locating his application of evolutionary concepts to morality within a broader history of Darwinism while exploring Rée’s theoretical and personal relationship with Nietzsche. In placing Nietzsche in his intellectual and social context, Small profoundly challenges the myth of Nietzsche as a solitary thinker.

Divided Staffs, Divided Selves offers a case-centered approach to the teaching of health care ethics to a wide range of students and clinicians. The book provides both clinical case material and a method for engaging in a dialogue regarding difficult decisions in the mental health care field that have potentially tragic choices. The essays that introduce the volume place the ethical problems of treating mentally ill people in the context of the health care ethics movement and traditions of ethical decision making. The individual cases are real, derived from actual clinical and consultative experiences.

The singer-songwriter and the Nobel Prize-winning poet collaborate on a passionate, suspenseful musical drama based on the life of a young Puerto Rican gang member who embarks on an odyssey through the criminal justice system. Simultaneous.

The Capeman brings together the talents of two of the most renowned artists of our time in a powerful musical drama that is destined to be one of the most outstanding theatrical experiences in many years. Paul Simon, one of America's foremost singer-songwriters and winner of twelve Grammy Awards over three decades, has joined with the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott to weave an enticing musical tale unlike anything that has come before it.Based on a true tale that begins in New York's Spanish Harlem in the 1950s, The Capeman tells the story of Salvador Agron, a young Puerto Rican known as the Capeman because of the cape he wears as a member of a street gang, the Vampires. Sal is convicted of murdering two young boys on a playground and is sentenced to die in the electric chair at the age of sixteen. His odyssey through the criminal-justice system, his escape from prison, and his subsequent travails are the template on which Paul Simon and Derek Walcott have created an unique theatrical experience rich in lyricism, passion, and suspense. The book is illustrated with Walcott's drawings.

In a wide-ranging study of unusual interest, Paul Weiss, Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, applies the principles and methods of philosophy to athletics. Every culture, he notes, has games of some kind; few activities seem to interest both children and young men as much as sports do; and few attract so many spectators, rich and poor. Yet none of the great philosophers, claiming to take all knowledge and being as their province, have made more than a passing reference to sport, in part, Professor Weiss suggests, because they thought that what pleased the vulgar was not worth sustained study by the leisured. This seminal book breaks new ground and explores new paths: psychological and sociological forms of human behavior exhibited in games; the physiology of athletics, and the efforts of training and conditioning; and the motivation of athletics-- the rhythm and aims of contests and games, and the meaning of team play. More importantly, however, Professor Weiss' s unique contributions lie in his discussions of the distinct contributions that sport makes to civilization. Professor Weiss discusses at length such topics as the Olympic Games and men and women as amateur and professional athletes-- and their sacrifices, defeats, and humiliations. And he delineates the stages the athlete must go through in his progress toward self-completion.

At seventeen a survivor of a Nazi death camp, Reb Michael Klimrod devotes his life to the pursuit of power, wealth, and revenge

Jewish women's exclusion from the public domains of religious and civil life has been reflected in their near absence in the master narratives of the East European Jewish past. As a result, the study of Jewish women in eastern Europe is still in its infancy. The fundamental task of historians to construct women as historical subjects, 'as a focus of inquiry, a subject of the story, an agent of the narrative', has only recently begun. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish women's experiences in Eastern Europe. The volume is edited by Paula Hyman of Yale University, a leading figure in Jewish women's history in the United States, and by ChaeRan Freeze of Brandeis University, author of a prize-winning study on Jewish divorce in nineteenth-century Russia. Their Introduction provides a much-needed historiographic survey that summarizes the major work in the field and highlights the lacunae. Their contributors, following this lead, have attempted to go beyond mere description of what women experienced to explore how gender constructed distinct experiences, identities, and meanings. In seeking to recover lost achievements and voices and place them into a broader analytical framework, this volume is an important first step in the rethinking of east European Jewish history with the aid of new insights gleaned from the research on gender. As in earlier volumes of Polin, substantial space is given, in 'New Views', to recent research in other areas of Polish-Jewish studies, and there is a book review section.

THE STORY: Anna, Ruth and Peter await the arrival of their newborn child, but first they must rid the crowded apartment of their three imaginary children.

Who are the most successful psychics in America, how did they get to where they are, and how do you get in touch with them? This unique and intriguing volume answers all those questions and more as it profiles truly amazing psychics specializing in crime, business, celebrity readings, and much more.

Lecture I The Early History of Fermat's Last Theorem.- 1 The Problem.- 2 Early Attempts.- 3 Kummer's Monumental Theorem.- 4 Regular Primes.- 5 Kummer's Work on Irregular Prime Exponents.- 6 Other Relevant Results.- 7 The Golden Medal and the Wolfskehl Prize.- Lecture II Recent Results.- 1 Stating the Results.- 2 Explanations.- Lecture III B.K. = Before Kummer.- 1 The Pythagorean Equation.- 2 The Biquadratic Equation.- 3 The Cubic Equation.- 4 The Quintic Equation.- 5 Fermat's Equation of Degree Seven.- Lecture IV The Naïve Approach.- 1 The Relations of Barlow and Abel.- 2 Sophie Germain.- 3 Congruences.- 4 Wendt's Theorem.- 5 Abel's Conjecture.- 6 Fermat's Equation with Even Exponent.- 7 Odds and Ends.- Lecture V Kummer's Monument.- 1 A Justification of Kummer's Method.- 2 Basic Facts about the Arithmetic of Cyclotomic Fields.- 3 Kummer's Main Theorem.- Lecture VI Regular Primes.- 1 The Class Number of Cyclotomic Fields.- 2 Bernoulli Numbers and Kummer's Regularity Criterion.- 3 Various Arithmetic Properties of Bernoulli Numbers.- 4 The Abundance of Irregular Primes.- 5 Computation of Irregular Primes.- Lecture VII Kummer Exits.- 1 The Periods of the Cyclotomic Equation.- 2 The Jacobi Cyclotomic Function.- 3 On the Generation of the Class Group of the Cyclotomic Field.- 4 Kummer's Congruences.- 5 Kummer's Theorem for a Class of Irregular Primes.- 6 Computations of the Class Number.- Lecture VIII After Kummer, a New Light.- 1 The Congruences of Mirimanoff.- 2 The Theorem of Krasner.- 3 The Theorems of Wieferich and Mirimanoff.- 4 Fermat's Theorem and the Mersenne Primes.- 5 Summation Criteria.- 6 Fermat Quotient Criteria.- Lecture IX The Power of Class Field Theory.- 1 The Power Residue Symbol.- 2 Kummer Extensions.- 3 The Main Theorems of Furtwängler.- 4 The Method of Singular Integers.- 5 Hasse.- 6 The p-Rank of the Class Group of the Cyclotomic Field.- 7 Criteria of p-Divisibility of the Class Number.- 8 Properly and Improperly Irregular Cyclotomic Fields.- Lecture X Fresh Efforts.- 1 Fermat's Last Theorem Is True for Every Prime Exponent Less Than 125000.- 2 Euler Numbers and Fermat's Theorem.- 3 The First Case Is True for Infinitely Many Pairwise Relatively Prime Exponents.- 4 Connections between Elliptic Curves and Fermat's Theorem.- 5 Iwasawa's Theory.- 6 The Fermat Function Field.- 7 Mordell's Conjecture.- 8 The Logicians.- Lecture XI Estimates.- 1 Elementary (and Not So Elementary) Estimates.- 2 Estimates Based on the Criteria Involving Fermat Quotients.- 3 Thue, Roth, Siegel and Baker.- 4 Applications of the New Methods.- Lecture XII Fermat's Congruence.- 1 Fermat's Theorem over Prime Fields.- 2 The Local Fermat's Theorem.- 3 The Problem Modulo a Prime-Power.- Lecture XIII Variations and Fugue on a Theme.- 1 Variation I (In the Tone of Polynomial Functions).- 2 Variation II (In the Tone of Entire Functions).- 3 Variation III (In the Theta Tone).- 4 Variation IV (In the Tone of Differential Equations).- 5 Variation V (Giocoso).- 6 Variation VI (In the Negative Tone).- 7 Variation VII (In the Ordinal Tone).- 8 Variation VIII (In a Nonassociative Tone).- 9 Variation IX (In the Matrix Tone).- 10 Fugue (In the Quadratic Tone).- Epilogue.- Index of Names.

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