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Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Healing, Cosmology, & Tradition in the Dutch Country - Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center

Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Healing, Cosmology, & Tradition in the Dutch Country

Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center

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This booklet was put together as a collaborative exhibit by the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center and the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University. This exhibit of Pennsylvania Dutch folk healing manuscripts, books, and ritual objects is among the very first and largest of its kind and encompasses a wide range of expression in the material culture of folk healing, and offers a rare opportunity to experience a diverse spectrum of spiritual and cosmological beliefs in Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture throughout three centuries. (39pp. full-color illus. Pennsylvania German Cult. Heritage Ctr., 2015.)

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Michael R.

Great book so far and it's such a nice print

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Forest F.

Having great grandparents, all born in rural Pennsylvania with German ancestry, elements of powwowing and folk remedies were commonplace among us young ones! This book helps keep those practices alive and gives me a valuable historically reliable resource to consult.


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