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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice. By Raymond A. Bucko. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. viii, 336 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-8032-1272-0.)

Raymond A. Bucko's book is a complex case study of the inipi, or sweat lodge ritual, among the Lakota people. Based on fieldwork on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the book will be of interest to specialists in Native American culture and religion, students in anthropology and religions studies, and a wider audience as well. The argument is elaborated in seven chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 lay out what is known about the Lakota sweat lodge from the earliest documentation to the present. The third chapter examines how the social location of observers such as missionaries and anthropologists shaped the textual representation of Lakota belief and ritual. The fourth and fifth chapters describe communications within the sweat lodge and the nature of individual experience. Chapter 6 shows how differences over ritual performance are handled within Lakota society. Chapter 7 demonstrates how the sweat lodge functions to incorporate people, both Indian and non-Indian, into Lakota ritual processes. . . .

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