{"product_id":"cosmology-and-moral-community-in-the-lakota-sun-dance-paperback-softback","title":"Cosmology and Moral Community in the Lakota Sun Dance - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker’s 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex – the most important Lakota ceremony – creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book uses Walker’s primary source to conduct a reading of the Sun Dance in its nineteenth-century context through the lenses of Lakota metaphysics, cosmology, ontology, and ethics. The author argues that the Sun Dance constitutes a cosmic ethical drama in which persons of all types – human and nonhuman – come together in reciprocal actions and relationships. Drawing on contemporary animist theory and a perspectivist approach that uses Lakota worldview assumptions as the basis for analysis, the book enables a richer understanding of the Sun Dance and its role in the Lakota moral world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a nuanced understanding that centers Lakota views of the sacred, this book will be relevant to scholars of religion and animism, and all those interested in Native American cultures and lifeways.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45584224846062,"sku":"9780367748807","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/cosmology-and-moral-community-in-the-lakota-sun-dance-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}