Paul Radin eBooks
eBooks di Paul Radin editi da Forgotten Books
Some Aspects of Puberty Fasting Among the Ojibwa. E-book. Formato PDF Paul Radin - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The subject of fasting among the North American Indians, although it has been touched upon frequently by a number of writers, has never been made the object of a special study as yet. In the present little essay the writer will make no attempt to study the subject of fasting in any exhaustive manner, but will merely attempt, on the basis of a number of some of the fasting experiences, to point out features that, in his Opinion, seem distinctive of Ojibwa puberty fasts. He hopes to reserve a more exhaustive study of the same for his report on the ethnology of this tribe itself. The fasting experiences will be given first and the discussion will then follow. The writer has only selected a few of the accounts he has obtained, but the five chosen seem to contain all the characteristic features of the fast, although in certain details they, of course, differ from some of the others. It might be stated, before proceeding to give the accounts themselves, that in only two cases did the experience represent that of the informant himself, and that in the other cases they referred to relatives of the informants. I do not believe that this in any way detracts from their value, but, of course, it may have led to the omission of a detail here and there.
The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. E-book. Formato PDF Paul Radin - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Such an autobiography was Obtained by the author from a Winnebago Indian and published in volume XXVI of the Journal of American folk-lore in 1913. The reception given this first auto biography led to further effort in this direction, the aim being, not to Obtain autobiographical details about some definite personage, but to have some representative middle-aged individual of moderate ability describe his life in relation to the social group in which he had grown up. A series of fortunate circumstances enabled the author to secure a rather lengthy autobiography from a member of a very prominent Winnebago family. This is the account here published. The Indian in question was a brother of the Winnebago who had written the earlier autobiography referred to above. The writer is referred to throughout the notes as S. B. No attempt of any kind was made to in?uence him in the selection of the particular facts of his life which he chose to present. SO far as could be ascertained the Indian wrote the autobiography in two consecutive sessions in a syllabary now commonly used among the Winnebago. The translation was made by the author on the basis of a rendition from his interpreter, Mr. Oliver Lamere, of Winnebago, Nebraska. The autobiography proper closes with Part I. Part II embodies the system of instruction used among the Winnebago and forms a unit by itself. The Indian regarded it as part of his autobiography inas much as it represents what he remembered to have heard from his father when he was a young boy. The various headings have been added by the author. All explana tory matter is included in the notes.