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Honoring elders : aging, authority, and Ojibwe religion /
Like many Native Americans, Ojibwe people esteem the wisdom, authority, and religious significance of old age, but this respect does not come easily or naturally. It is the fruit of hard work, rooted in narrative traditions, moral vision, and ritualized practices of decorum that are comparable in so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Aging and the life cycle imagined in Ojibwe tradition and lived in history
- Eldership, respect, and the sacred community
- Elders as grandparents and teachers
- Elders articulating tradition
- The sacralization of eldership
- The shape of wisdom.