{"product_id":"mabel-mckay-weaving-the-dream-volume-1-portraits-of-american-genius","title":"Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Volume 1) (Portraits of American Genius)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarris, Greg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 01-09-1994\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard.\n\nGreg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight―the white people's way. Sarris, an Indian of mixed-blood heritage, finds his own story in his search for Mabel McKay's. Beautifully narrated, Weaving the Dream initiates the reader into Pomo culture and demonstrates how a woman who worked most of her life in a cannery could become a great healer and an artist whose baskets were collected by the Smithsonian.\n\nHearing Mabel McKay's life story, we see that distinctions between material and spiritual and between mundane and magical disappear. What remains is a timeless way of healing, of making art, and of being in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520086128\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757583499565,"sku":"FBA_N_AM_8599","price":48.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5853\/5981\/files\/81mq5lxKOFL.jpg?v=1768493637","url":"https:\/\/silkroadstore.us\/products\/mabel-mckay-weaving-the-dream-volume-1-portraits-of-american-genius","provider":"Silk Road Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}