by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 21, 2016 | catholic ritual, powwow, protestant missionaries, Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming PTSD
Dear Mr. Junger,I went to a funeral mass for a friend last week. As I listened to the priests—one from Africa, the other from South America, and bathed in Catholic ritual with the large extended family and members of the local congregation, it occurred to me that you...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 13, 2016 | 500 nations, Alvin Josephy, PTSD, Sebastian Junger, Tribe
I liked the argument in Sebastian Junger’s new book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, but cringed throughout the first chapters as he lumped all American Indians together and made them stone-age hunter-gatherers, “a native population that had barely changed,...