Anthropos: Anthropos, 29.1934

Anthropos, 29.1934

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Titel:: Anthropos

Weitere Titel:: Anthropos

Erscheinungsort:: Fribourg

Verlag:: Ed. St. Paul, Anthropos-Institut

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Anthropos, 29.1934

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1933

Signatur:: LA 1118-29

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 29, H. 1./2., Jan. - Apr., 1934

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Titel:: The nature, origin, and linkages of the rite of hookswinging: with special reference to North America

Sonstige Person:: MacLeod, W. C.

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

2 W. C. MacLeod, the complex, hookswinging, is found only in these two areas, being absent in Central America! The problem is as complex as the full rite of hookswinging. We must, for example, ask (1) is the hookswinging of the northwest coast of North America, of northeast Asiatic, direct Oceanic, or of inner North American origin, ultimately, of Central American and southeast Asiatic origin; (2) is the hookswinging of the upper Mississippi valley of northwest coast origin or of Central American origin; (3) did the complete hookswinging rite ever exist in Central America and if it did, is it of Asiatic origin; (4) what is the significance of the hooking or skewering found in the Chaco in South America? We shall attempt to examine the esoteric as well as the exoteric aspects of the rite. We are hampered in this, due to the inadequacy of the data on the rite in India and the ignoring by students of culture in India, of the facts regarding mere skewering or hooking in India, some of which I reported in an earlier paper as noted in certain motion pictures I witnessed 2 . We shall also begin the work of relating hookswinging to certain (perhaps adventi tiously) associated rites. Here we are hampered by the serious inadequacy to date of our data on the rituals of the northwest coast and plains tribes of North America. We feel, however, that we have been able to make a promising beginning. In the first half of our paper we shall confine ourselves to the pheno mena in themselves. In the second half, we shall attempt to reach some historical tentation. I. The Nature of the Rite. 1. The Mandan Rite as an initiation with a death and resurrection ritual. The great annual ceremony of the Mandans was called by them Okipe — a name the meaning of which was unknown even to them. The ceremony centered in and around the sacred lodge, a permanent building which was closed all year except at the time of the annual ceremony, which lasted for four days. Hookswinging (pohk-hong) is performed at the time of the annual cere mony. All youths who have reached maturity during the year, hookswing at this time, performing the rite on the fourth or last day. The victim is skewered. The officiant who makes the incisions for the skewers wears a mask, in order, we are told, that the victim may not know who cut him. (This significantly recalls the fact that the officiant who chops off fingers after the rite also wears a mask. Further, it should be considered in connection with the fact that the two assistants of the hookswinger who run the victim around the lodge after the rite until he falls in a faint, “dead”, then rapidly flee through the crowd out into the prairies, “as if” to escape punishment, we are told, for some heinous crime.) To the victim’s skewers are attached heavy buffalo skulls. The Mandan lodge has four centre poles. Each victim has ropes attached to his skewers 2 MacLeod: Hookswinging, p. 553. Since then Sayce (1933) has described hooking in connection with the fire-walk among the Hindus of Natal Africa.

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