The Road of Life and DeathPaul RadinLabel: Princeton University PressDescription: In this transcription of the Medicine Rite the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.
