Amerindian Rebirth : : Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (410 p.)
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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

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