Sanapia
Subtitle: Comanche Medicine Woman
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: January 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9780881330410
Subjects: General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Native American Studies; Sociology
First sentence: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC IMMORTALITY of the Comanches rests almost exclusively on the data obtained and published by the members of the 1933 Ethnological Field Study Group of the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology.
Table of contents: title: Pronunciation guide -- Introduction -- The Comanches. Historical background -- Comanche origin -- Migrations -- Relationship to Shoshone -- Religious patterns -- A basin-type culture -- On the plains -- Comanche bands -- Acculturation and schism -- Sanapia, 1895 – 1968. Early childhood -- Religious influences -- White contact -- The middle years -- Training to become a doctor -- Deportment of a doctor -- Origin of eagle doctors -- Consent of the teachers -- Power transmission -- Tabus -- Final test -- Dreams and visions -- Visitations from the Medicine Eagle -- Contacts with the supernatural -- The supernatural universe -- A successor -- Attitudes about Sanapia -- Sanapia’s self-concept -- Medicine kit. Care of medicines -- Nonbotanical medicines. Crow feathers -- Glass slivers -- Sucking horn -- Charcoal from a peyote drum -- White otter fur -- Porcupine quills -- Bone medicine -- The Bible -- Medicine feather -- Indian lard -- Mouth wash -- Red paint -- Black kerchief -- Botanical medicines: collection, preparation, and dosages. Ekapokowa:pi -- Natsanksi -- Ekǝpa -- Puitsasene -- Kunǝatsu -- Bakumak -- Pǝhǝßi -- Esipɂhɂßhi -- Bekwinatsu -- Sanawiha -- Kusiwǝna -- Do:ltsa -- Bǝ:tasas -- Oinatsu -- Itse -- Osidobeda -- Tǝpinatsu -- Ghosts and ghost sickness. Comanche attitudes toward ghosts -- Ghost sickness -- Ghost fear in the basin and on the plains -- The resurgence of the ghost complex -- Debt to the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache -- Habits of ghosts -- Preliminaries to the treatment of ghost sickness -- Treatment of ghost sickness -- Use of the peyote meeting -- Intercession of the Medicine Eagle -- Payments -- The necessity of faith -- Number of patients per year -- What is ghost sickness? -- A psychogenic hypothesis -- The victim of the ghost -- Indian-ness and ghost sickness -- The efficiency of ghost sickness -- Precipitating factors -- Change in behavior -- Ghost sickness and watch sickness -- Sanapia, ghosts, and ghost sickness -- Witchcraft and the conceptualization of illness. Black magic -- Reasons for the use of witchcraft -- A method of witchcraft -- The symptoms of witch sickness -- Treatment of witch sickness -- Concept of illness -- The contemporary situation -- Factors in the decline of witchcraft -- Conclusion. Lack of comparable material -- Inconsistencies -- Sanapia prevails -- References -- Recommended reading.