ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Digitoxin, Traditional Medicine, Inuit
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Oct 23 touching the timeless: the art of shamanic healing anthro 100. To put it more simply, apparently everyone likes to get high. As we can all remember this impulse begins at a very young age. A school yard game, but among the vodoun initiates in togo, or the. Sufi mystics of anatolia, the whirling dervishes, who spin in remembrance of god, this childhood impulse becomes an avenue to the divine. This is a photograph of what is surely one of the most unusual items in the entire ethnographic collections of the smithsonian. It is the tai-me, and for the kiowa, it is the most precious of objects. Unlike the cheyenne and araphaho, whose legends still speak of a time when they lived to the east and grew corn, the kiowa have no tribal memory of ever having been anything but hunters. They were born in the hollow of a cottonwood log at the headwaters of the missouri river.
