Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere... [by] A. Irving Hallowell
Author : Alfred Irving Hallowell
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Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Alfred Irving Hallowell
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Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Alfred Irving Hallowell
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Animals
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Author : David Rockwell
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2003-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1461664578
In this new edition of a classic, David Rockwell describes the captivating and awe-inspiring presence of the bear in Native American rituals. The bear played a central role in shamanic rights, initiation, healing and hunting ceremonies, and new year celebrations. Considered together, these traditions are another way of looking at the world, one in which the mysteries of the universe are revealed through animals.
Author : Kenneth Dean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319893696
This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West. Its authors highlight that terms like ‘secular’, ‘secularization’, and ‘secularism’ do not carry the same meanings in the very different historical and cultural contexts of Asia. Critiquing Charles Taylor’s account of secularism, this book examines what travelled and what not in ‘the imperial encounter’ between Western secular modernity and other traditions outside of the West. Throughout the book, state responses to religion at different points in Chinese and South-East Asian history are carefully considered, providing a nuanced and in-depth understanding of post-secular strategies and relations in these areas. Particular attention is given to Catholicism in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Singapore, and Hinduism and Chinese religion in Malaysia, Singapore, and India. This theoretically engaged work will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies, anthropology, religious studies, history, sociology, and political science.
Author : Brannon Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1316511863
Uses textual analysis and various types of material evidence to gain insight into the role of animal sacrifice in Islam.
Author : Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134822111
Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross cultural and cross historical perspective on the subject. The book documents the universality of gender reversals, with chapters ranging from early Christianity up to the present. It examines how gender reversals are bound up with taboo, and how this underlies various religious and ritual activities. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures also shows how attitudes to gender-reversal can reveal much about a particular culture. Anne Bolin, Elon College, Judith Ochshorn, University of South Florida, Karen Torjesen, Claremont Graduate School, California, Julia Welch, Winfried Schleiner, Unive
Author : Kimberly M. Blaeser
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780806128740
Kimberly M. Blaeser begins with an examination of Vizenor's concept of Native American oral culture and his unique incorporation of oral tradition in the written word. She details Vizenor's efforts to produce a form of writing that resists static meaning, involves the writer in the creation of the literary moment, and invites political action and explores the place of Vizenor's work within the larger context of contemporary tribal literature, Native American scholarship, and critical theory.
Author : Christian Roy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1851096892
This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization. Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia travels around the world and across the centuries to uncover an often unexpected richness of meaning in some of the major sacred festivals of the world's religions, the hallowed calendars of ancient civilizations, and the seasonal celebrations of tribal cultures. From Akitu to Yom Kippur, its 150+ entries look at the content and context of these festivals from a number of perspectives (including those relating to theology, anthropology, folklore, and social theory), tracing their historical development and variations across cultures. Readers will get a vivid sense of what each festival means to the people celebrating it; how each captures its culture's beliefs, hopes and fears, founding myths, and redemptive visions; and how each expresses the universal need of humans to connect their lives to a timeless spiritual dimension.
Author : Jordan Paper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1474281680
This book makes a compelling case for male-female religious complementarity in many of the world's religions. It offers an extensive survey of female spiritual roles in a variety of cultures and provides evidence that women have exercised authority and sacred power in a variety of traditional religions.
Author : Bernd Brunner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0393881016
An entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking. Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man’s-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern “cabinet of wonders” and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial mystique. Like the mythological sagas that inspired everyone from Wagner to Tolkien, Extreme North explores both the dramatic vistas of the Scandinavian fjords and the murky depths of a Western psyche obsessed with Nordic whiteness. In concise but thoroughly researched chapters, Brunner highlights the cultural and political fictions at play from the first “discoveries” of northern landscapes and stories, to the eugenicist elevation of the “Nordic” phenotype (which in turn influenced America’s limits on immigration), to the idealization of Scandinavian social democracy as a post-racial utopia. Brunner traces how crackpot Nazi philosophies that tied the “Aryan race” to the upper latitudes have influenced modern pseudoscientific fantasies of racial and cultural superiority the world over. The North, Brunner argues, was as much invented as discovered. Full of glittering details embedded in vivid storytelling, Extreme North is a fascinating romp through both actual encounters and popular imaginings, and a disturbing reminder of the power of fantasy to shape the world we live in.