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Ojibwe singers : hymns, grief, and a native culture in motion /
The Ojibwe of Anishinaabe are a native American people who were taught by 19th-century missionaries to sing evangelical hymns translated into the native language both as a means of worship and as a tool for eradicating the ""indianness"" of the native people. Rather than American...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford Unviversity Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Ojibwe of Anishinaabe are a native American people who were taught by 19th-century missionaries to sing evangelical hymns translated into the native language both as a means of worship and as a tool for eradicating the ""indianness"" of the native people. Rather than Americanizing the people, however, these songs have become emblematic of Anishinaabe identity. In this book, Michael McNally uses the Ojiwbe's hymn-singing as a lens to examine how this native American people has creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to negotiate identity and survival within the structures of colonialism |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423760565 9781423760566 9786610473236 6610473234 |