James Watt Mavor, Jr.Reseñas

Brilliant work although the writing and the book's organization could be much better.½

A examination of manitou, the spirtual aspect of nature, as expressed in stone creations by Native Americans in New England. Mavor and Dix link the religious practices of the natives peoples with a wider human impulse to find a spiritual power in the natural landscape. Every reader of Sierra magazine will understand this impulse. The book furthers explores native ritual as it related to and conflicted with religions brought from Europe, especially suggesting an affinity with Shakerism. This book has me peering at every stone pile and fence as I travel around New England. Some of the sites photographed are even in my town of Foxboro, MA!