Dream Catchers
How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
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Word Count
76,500 words, Guess
Page Count
306 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7390563M
- ISBN-139780195161151
- ISBN-100195161157
- OCLC Control Number54074085
- OCLC Control Numberdreamcatchershow0000jenk
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003026909
- Goodreads1182238
- LibraryThing1320025
Classifications
- LCCBL2500.J46 2004
Description
Jenkins offers an account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. He charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with "Hebrew Indians" and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the wisdom of ancient Atlantis. He looks at the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews and Frank Waters, and explores New Age paraphernalia including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. He also examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places and notes that many "white indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty.--From publisher description.
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