Amerindian Rebirth : : Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit / / ed. by Antonia Mills, Richard Slobodin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Gernet, Alexander von,; Goulet, Jean-Guy A.,; Guemple, Lee,; Harkin, Michael E.,; Matlock, James G.,; Mauzé, Marie,; Mills, Antonia,; Nuttall, Mark,; Obeyesekere, Gananath,; Radin, Paul,; Slobodin, Richard,; Stevenson, Ian,; Turner, Edith,; d’Anglure, Bernard Saladin,
• HerausgeberIn: Mills, Antonia,; Slobodin, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)

Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day.Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeenth-century Huron eschatology, Winnebago ideology, varying forms of Inuit belief, and concepts of rebirth found among subarctic natives and Northwest Coast peoples.The closing chapters address the genesis and anthropological study of Amerindian reincarnation. In addition, the possibility of evidence for the actuality of rebirth is addressed. Amerindian Rebirth will further our understanding of concepts of self-identity, kinship, religion, cosmology, resiliency, and change among native North American peoples

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword: Reincarnation Eschatologies and the Comparative Study of Religions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reincarnation Belief among North American Indians and Inuit: Context, Distribution, and Variation -- 3. Saving the Souls: Reincarnation Beliefs of the Seventeenth-Century Huron -- 4. The Reincarnations of Thunder Cloud, A Winnebago Indian -- 5. Behind Inupiaq Reincarnation: Cosmological Cycling -- 6. From Foetus to Shaman: The Construction of an Inuit Third Sex -- 7. Born-Again Pagans: The Inuit Cycle of Spirits -- 8. The Name Never Dies: Greenland Inuit Ideas of the Person -- 9. Kutchin Concepts of Reincarnation -- 10. Reincarnation as a Fact of Life among Contemporary Dene Tha -- 11. The Concept of the Person and Reincarnation among the Kwakiutl Indians -- 12. Person, Time, and Being: Northwest Coast Rebirth in Comparative Perspective -- 13. Rebirth and Identity: Three Gitksan Cases of Pierced-Ear Birthmarks -- 14. Cultural Patterns in Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation among the Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska -- 15. Alternate-Generation Equivalence and the Recycling of Souls: Amerindian Rebirth in Global Perspective -- 16. The Study of Reincarnation in Indigenous American Cultures: Some Comments -- Appendix.A Trait Index to North American Indian and Inuit Reincarnation -- References -- Culture Index -- General Index -- Contributors