Name: Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Braucherei & the Ritual of Everyday Life (HARDCOVER): Patrick J. Donmoyer: 9780998707488: Masthof: Books
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Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Braucherei & the Ritual of Everyday Life (HARDCOVER)

Patrick J. Donmoyer

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This cultural exploration offers an unparalleled presentation of Pennsylvania’s ritual healing traditions known as powwowing or Braucherei in Pennsylvania Dutch, through original primary source materials, including manuscripts, ritual objects, and books—most of which have never before been available to English-speaking readers. Although methods and procedures have varied considerably over three centuries of ritual practice within the Pennsylvania Dutch cultural region, the outcomes and experiences surrounding this tradition have woven a rich tapestry of cultural narratives that highlight the integration of ritual into all aspects of life, as well as provide insight into the challenges, conflicts, growth, and development of a distinct Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture. (343pp. color illus. index. hardcover. PA German Cult. Heritage Center, 2018.) Reprinted July 2023.

Volume IV of the Annual Publication Series of the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University.

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Very informative and detailed

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.

Excellent service, great book
Thank you for your excellent service. I recieved my book about 2 days after I ordered it. The date of delivery was supposed to be a week later.
I'm in the middle of reading the book right now and it is very informative.

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An invaluable book!
This fantastic work is essential reading for anyone even remotely interested in the history and practice of Powwowing, Braucherei, and the spiritual and folk traditions of the Pennsylvania Germans. Both scholarly and eminently readable, its incredible collection of high-quality photographs expands on the prior Powwowing exhibitions held by Kutztown University, the Schwenkfelder Library, and Bryn Athyn's Glencairn Museum, which brought together hundreds of rare artifacts, many of which had never before been exhibited publicly. Likewise, Mr. Donmoyer's inclusion of one Dr. Georg Helfenstein's 1810 work "Soli Deo Gloria" (later, "Secrets of Sympathy"), one of the earliest and rarest Braucherei texts, is an added bonus! All in all, an absolutely invaluable addition to anyone's library. (Special thanks also to Mr. Donmoyer's friend and fellow author, Dan Harms, whose own blog alerted me to the existence of this book!)