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Living with Animals : Ojibwe Spirit Powers /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
University of Toronto Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Challenging Western Thought
- The Power of Bear Grease
- Bears as Persons
- Transformative Possibilities Make Definitive Judgments Difficult
- Introduction
- Scope of This Book
- Geography of the Ojibwe
- Goals and Methodology
- Use of Terms, Spellings, and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Genesis of This Book
- Permissions
- 1 The Grand Medicine Society, the Midewiwin
- Membership
- Wabeno, Jessakkid, and Midewiwin
- Origins of the Midewiwin
- Cosmic Ordering
- Nanabush
- Health and the MidewiwinFunctions of the Midewiwin
- Sound of the Drum
- Medicine Bags
- Birch Bark Scrolls, the Lodge, Teachings, Ceremonies
- Midewiwin and Rock Art
- Bear, the â€oeGuiding Spirit of the Midewiwinâ€?
- Megis/Shell
- Midewiwin and Leadership
- 2 â€oePaths of the Spiritâ€?: Moral Values in the Writings of Four Nineteenth-Century Ojibwe in the Spirit of the Midewiwin
- Peter Jones: Like the â€oeRed Squirrelâ€? Who Stores Nuts, Store Works of the Great Spirit
- Andrew J. Blackbird: â€oeThe Great Spirit is looking upon thee continuallyâ€?
- George Copway: â€oeI am one of Natureâ€?s childrenâ€? William Whipple Warren: â€oeThere is much yet to be learned from the wild and apparently simple son of the forestâ€?
- 3 Otter, the Playful Slider
- Physical Otter
- Otter as Representational
- Otter as Patterned
- Otter and Ojibwe Standards of Life
- 4 Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwe and Midewiwin Worlds
- Classification and Characteristics of Owls
- Owl as Bad Luck, Bad Medicine
- Owl as Protector and Healer
- Owl as a Teacher of Altruism
- Owl and Directions, Winds, and Seasons
- Owl and the DeadOwl and Conservation
- Owl and Origin of Day and Night
- Representations of Owl
- 5 Omnipresent and Ambivalent Bears
- Bears� Anatomy, Physiology, and Behaviour
- Ojibwe Relationships with Bears
- Representations of Bear in Ceremonial Performances
- Near-Identity of Bears and Ojibwe
- Bear in the Midewiwin Ceremonies
- Totems/Dodems, Clans
- Evil Bears
- Bear as Archshadow
- Bear as Celestial
- Bears and Visions of Sound
- Bear as Medicine and Healer: Following the Bear Path
- Bear as Patterned
- Bear as Child Abductor
- Bear as Environmental Guardian, MotherGames
- Bear and Greed
- 6 Water Creatures
- Harmful Creatures
- Snakes and the Afterlife
- Helpful Creatures
- Women, Water, and Snakes
- Sea Creatures and Copper
- Sea Creatures and Silver
- The Little People
- 7 Thunderbirds
- Thunderbirds as Givers
- Relationships among Humans, Sky, and Water Creatures
- Birds and Play
- Thunderbirds and Ojibwe Life
- Thunderers as Communicators and Protectors
- Thunderbird Symbolism
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Leadership among the Ojibwe