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Spirit wars : Native North American religions in the age of nation building /
Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-c. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520923430 052092343X 1417523336 9781417523337 9780520209855 0520209850 9780520219878 0520219872 1597349135 9781597349130 |