Standing Ground

Thomas Buckley is an independent scholar and writer living in Maine. He previously taught anthropology and American Indian studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and coedited Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation (California, 1988).

"The most in-depth, complex, and analytically sophisticated portrayal of Yurok spirituality ever written by an anthropologist [and] the most important ethnographic work about the Yurok in general since Kroeber's work in the early twentieth century."-Les W. Field, author of The Grimace of Macho Raton "Its description of Yurok religious practice in recent times is both sympathetic and insightful, providing an interweaving series of narratives and interpretations.... The author makes an eloquent case for cultural continuity."-Michael Harkin, author of The Heiltsuks

• Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: CONTEXTS 1. The Yurok Reservation 2. Double Helix 3. Native Authors PART TWO: TESTIMONY 4. Seeing with Their Own Eyes 5. Doctors 6. The GO-Road PART THREE: UNDERSTANDINGS 7. The One Who Flies All around the World 8. The World 9. Melancholy 10. The Shaker Church 11. Jump Dance Notes References Acknowledgments of Permissions Index