{"product_id":"the-power-of-kiowa-song-9780816518357","title":"The Power of Kiowa Song","description":"\u003cb\u003eMany Kiowas believe\u003c\/b\u003e that song is a gift from God. Its power, argues Luke E. Lassiter, rests in the many ways that community members hear, understand, and feel it: \"Song has power. As I begin to understand what this means for my mentors, I am just beginning to understand what this means in my life. They are not just singers. They are vehicles for something greater than all of us. Indeed, I now understand that I am not just a singer. But . . . I will sing until I die.\" As a boy, Lassiter had an early fascination with pow wows. This interest eventually went from a hobby to a passion. As Lassiter made Kiowa friends who taught him to sing and traveled the pow wow circuit, serving many times as a head singer, he began to investigate and write about the pow wow as an experiential encounter with song. \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Kiowa Song\u003c\/i\u003e shows how song is interpreted, created, and used by individuals, how it is negotiated through the context of an event, and how it emerges as a powerfully unique and specific public expression. \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Kiowa Song\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collaborative, community-wide dialogue about the experience of song. Using conversations with Kiowa friends as a frame, Lassiter seeks to describe the entire experience of song rather than to analyze it solely from a distance. Lassiter's Kiowa consultants were extremely active in the writing of the book, re-explaining concepts that seemed difficult to grasp and discussing the organization and content of the work. In a text that is engaging and easily read, Lassiter has combined experiential narrative with ethnological theory to create a new form of collaborative ethnography that makes anthropology accessible to everyone. This book is designed for anyone interested in Native American studies or anthropology, and it also serves as a resource written by and for the Kiowa themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hear the Power of Kiowa Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuke E. Lassiter is an assistant professor of anthropology at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328870977810,"sku":"9780816518357","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be3d945f-95c2-411e-8186-b25a6b82a1c0.jpg?v=1727753501","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-power-of-kiowa-song-9780816518357","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}