Coast Salish Spirit Dancing. The Survival of an Ancestral Religion Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, [1978].
Octavo. xvii, 193 pp., including index and several black and white illustrations. Brown publisher's cloth with original dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed and soiled. A near fine copy with very good dust jacket.
"Spirit Dancing, formerly in serious decline since the advent of Christianity, is now resurgent among the Nooksack of Western Washington and more generally among surrounding Coast Salish groups. Pamela Amoss here probes the reasons for this revival and describes the new context in which aboriginal rituals take place... Coast Salish Spirit Dancing provides a valuable insight into the persistence of aboriginal beliefs and practices in a modern context." Scarce.
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