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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mills, Antonia, editor.

Slobodin, Richard, 1915-2005, editor.

Canadian Anthropology Society. Meeting (1990 : Montréal, Québec)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Religion--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Indian mythology--North America--Congresses.

Indian mythology.

Inuit--Religion--Congresses.

Inuit.

Inuit mythology--Congresses.

Inuit mythology.

North America.

Genre:

Actes de congres.

Livres numeriques.

Conference papers and proceedings.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Publisher website.

Contents:

Foreword : Reincarnation eschatologies and the comparative study of religions / Gananath Obeyesekere

1. Introduction / Antonia Mills

2. Reincarnation belief among North American Indians and Inuit : context, distribution, and variation / Antonia Mills

3. Saving the souls : reincarnation beliefs of the seventeenth-century Huron / Alexander von Gernet

4. The reincarnations of Thunder Cloud, a Winnebago Indian / Paul Radin

5. Behind Inupiaq reincarnation : cosmological cycling / Edith Turner

6. From foetus to shaman : the construction of an Inuit third sex / Bernard Saladin d'Anglure

7. Born-again pagans : the Inuit cycle of spirits / Lee Guemple

8. The name never dies : Greenland Inuit ideas of the person / Mark Nuttall

9. Kutchin concepts of reincarnation / Richard Slobodin

10. Reincarnation as a fact of life among contemporary Dene Tha / Jean-Guy A. Goulet

11. The concept of the person and reincarnation among the Kwakiutl Indians / Marie Mauze

12. Person, time and being : Northwest Coast rebirth in comparative perspective / Michael E. Harkin

13. Rebirth and identity : three Gitksan cases of pierced-ear birthmarks / Antonia Mills

14. Cultural patterns in cases suggestive of reincarnation among the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska / Ian Stevenson

15. Alternate-generation equivalence and the recycling of souls : Amerindian rebirth in global perspective / James G. Matlock

16. The study of reincarnation in indigenous American cultures : some comments / Richard Slobodin

Appendix. A trait index to North American Indian and Inuit reincarnation sources / James G. Matlock and Antonia Mills.

Notes:

In part papers presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society in Montréal, May 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)

ISBN:

1-282-04585-7

9786612045851

1-4426-7076-2

OCLC:

923071684