Anthropos: Anthropos, 78.1983,1-4

Anthropos, 78.1983,1-4

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Titel:: Anthropos, 78.1983,1-4

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1983

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 78, 1983, Heft 3-4

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Jay Miller Numic Religion: An Overview of Power in the Great Basin of Native North America Abstract. — Although long noted for the gastronomic orientation of much of the research done in the Great Basin areas of North America, the Numic cultures located there profess one of the most subtly elementary religions on the continent. Having a kinetic understanding of power (puha) as flowing over the landscape, people recognize the affinity of puha for life and hence water. While diffused throughout the area, this power also concentrates in web-like currents linked to mountain peaks and water sources. While most closely associated with immortal supematurals, puha is shared with individuals in dreams. Shamans and others can strengthen their portion of power by using it at night or within inclosed spaces. Slighting variations, such as the male emphasis on Sun Father among the Northern Paiute, the present study emphasizes the female dominance of Ocean Old Woman in the southern and central area of Paiute and Shoshoni, as revealed in mythology, the ethnographic past, and present practice. Of particular note is the Basin cultural emphasis on Woman as the inclusive, unmarked category in contrast to the more confined definition of Man. The mediation of water and burrowing animals also is of great cultural importance for meshing together these societies. [North America, Great Basin, Numic Culture, Religion, Power, Women in Culture, Moisture Patterns] 1. Essentials The Great Basin has long been the subject of anthropological interest because the elementary patterns of its native societies tell us much about the persistence, stamina, and ingenuity needed by humans to live in a difficult Jay Miller, Dr. phil, graduated from the University of New Mexico and Rutgers, with course work at Princeton. His specialty is Native N orth American cultures, particularly in terms of the Strucon (structural-configuration) model he has been developing. The model recognizes a matrix for each culture with threeway relationships (inclosive-mediat- ing, inclusive-integrating, exclusive-segregating) and an echo-paideuma that pervades and unifies the entire system. His main publications have developed the model in terms of Delaware (Lenape) data and have appeared in Anthropological Linguistics and American Ethnologist. Other publications in Anthropos and Journal of Anthropological Research have explored the functions of mediation by heart, High God, and berdcche across the continent; based on his fieldwork among Pueblos, Delaware, Tsimshian, Salish, and Shoshoni In addition to faculty positions at several Universities and now as Visiting Scholar at the American Indian Studies Program, he has done legal and consulting re search for Salish and Numic tribes. Address: AIS GN-05, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195. Anthropos 78.1983 22

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