Anne-Christine Hornborg's Mi'kmaq Landscapes: From Animism to Sacred Ecology: 0 PDF

By Anne-Christine Hornborg

ISBN-10: 075466371X

ISBN-13: 9780754663713

This publication seeks to discover ancient alterations within the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of japanese Canada. The Mi'kmaq tradition hero Kluskap serves as a key personality in discussing matters reminiscent of traditions, altering conceptions of land, and human-environmental kinfolk. so as to not depict Mi'kmaq tradition as undying, vital classes in its historical past are tested. in the first interval, among 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores ancient proof of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - together labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi'kmaq looking subsistence. New methods of discussing animism and shamanism are right here richly exemplified. the second one examine situates the tradition hero within the glossy global of the Nineties, whilst allusions to Mi'kmaq culture and to Kluskap performed a major function within the fight opposed to a deliberate superquarry on Cape Breton. This examine discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated by means of glossy reserve population which can be labelled a 'sacred ecology'. concentrating on how the Mi'kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental family members in interplay with smooth society, Hornborg illustrates how environmental teams, pan-Indianism, and schooling play a tremendous position, yet so does reserve lifestyles. by way of anchoring their engagement in reserve existence the Mi'kmaq traditionalists have, to a wide volume, been in a position to confront either exterior and inner doubts approximately their authenticity.

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Mi'kmaq Landscapes: From Animism to Sacred Ecology: 0 by Anne-Christine Hornborg PDF

This publication seeks to discover historic adjustments within the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of jap Canada. The Mi'kmaq tradition hero Kluskap serves as a key personality in discussing concerns comparable to traditions, altering conceptions of land, and human-environmental relatives. so as to not depict Mi'kmaq tradition as undying, vital classes in its heritage are tested.

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