Going Native |
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| Author:
| Harmer, Tom |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8263-2318-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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In a spiritual autobiography shaped by years of living with a band of Salish Indian people after the Vietnam War, Tom Harmer shares his hard-won knowledge of their world and the nature spirits that govern it. Gradually absorbing the language, traditions, and practical spirit lore as one of the family, he was guided by an elderly uncle through arduous purification rites and fasts to the realisation that his life had been influenced and enhanced by a shumíx, or spirit partner, acquired...
More DescriptionIn a spiritual autobiography shaped by years of living with a band of Salish Indian people after the Vietnam War, Tom Harmer shares his hard-won knowledge of their world and the nature spirits that govern it. Gradually absorbing the language, traditions, and practical spirit lore as one of the family, he was guided by an elderly uncle through arduous purification rites and fasts to the realisation that his life had been influenced and enhanced by a shumíx, or spirit partner, acquired in childhood.