Ojibwa Sociology
Author: Ruth Landes
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Published: 1969
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ISBN-13: 9780231887427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies the Ojibwa society from its political organization, to its family structures, to marriage traditions, and property.
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Author: Ruth Landes
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780231887427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies the Ojibwa society from its political organization, to its family structures, to marriage traditions, and property.
Author: Ruth Landes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780803279698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1930s, young anthropologist Ruth Landes crafted this startlingly intimate glimpse into the lives of Ojibwa women, a richly textured ethnography widely recognized as a classic study of gender relations in a native society. Sexuality and violence, marital rights and responsibilities, and more are thoughtfully examined. Landes's pioneering work continues to inspire lively debate today.
Author: Ruth Landes
Publisher:
Published: 1937
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Vecsey
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780871691521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes & analyzes traditional Ojibwa religion (TOR) & the changes it has undergone through the last three centuries. Emphasizes the influence of Christian missions (CM) to the Ojibwas in effecting religious changes, & examines the concomitant changes in Ojibwa culture & environment through the historical period. Contents: Review of Sources; Criteria for Determining what was TOR; Ojibwa History; CM to the Ojibwas; Ojibwa Responses to CM; The Ojibwa Person, Living & Dead; The Manitos; Nanabozho & the Creation Myth; Ojibwa Relations with the Manitos; Puberty Fasting & Visions; Disease, Health, & Medicine; Religious Leadership; Midewiwin; Diverse Religious Movements; & The Loss of TOR. Maps & charts.
Author: Ruth Landes
Publisher:
Published: 1937
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John A. Grim
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780806121062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTribal peoples believe that the shaman experiences, absorbs, and communicates a special mode of power, sustaining and healing. This book discusses American Indian shamanic traditions, particularly those of the Woodland Ojibway, in terms drawn from the classical shamanism of Siberian peoples. Using a cultural-historical method, John A. Grim describes the spiritual formation of shamans, male and female, and elucidates the special religious experience that they transmit to their tribes. Writing as a historian of religion well acquainted with ethnological materials, Grim identifies four patterns in the shamanic experience: cosmology, tribal sanction, ritual reenactment, and trance experience. Relating those concepts to the Siberian and Ojibway experiences, he draws on mythology, sociology, anthropology, and psychology to paint a picture of shamanism that is both particularized and interpretative. As religious personalities, shamans are important today because of their singular ability to express symbolically the forces that animate the tribal cosmology. Often identifying themselves with primordial earth processes, shamans develop symbol systems drawn from the archetypal earth images that are vital to their psychic healing technique. This particular ability to resonate with the natural world is felt as an important need in our time. Those readers who identify with American Indians as they confront modern technological society will value this introduction to our native shamanic traditions and to the religious experience itself. The author's discussion of Ojibway practices is the most comprehensive short treatment available, written with a fine poetic feeling that reflects the literary expressiveness inherent in American Indian religion and thought.
Author: Thomas Vennum
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780873512268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores in detail the technology of harvesting and processing the grain, the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend, including the rich social life of the traditional rice camps, and the volatile issues of treaty rights. Wild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada. In this far-reaching book, Thomas Vennum Jr. uses travelers' narratives, historical and ethnological accounts, scientific data, historical and contemporary photographs and sketches, his own field work, and the words of Native people to examine the importance of this wild food to the Ojibway people. He details the technology of harvesting and processing, from seventeenth-century reports though modern mechanization. He explains the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend and depicts the rich social life of the traditional rice camps. And he reviews the volatile issues of treaty rights and litigations involving Indian problems in maintaining this traditional resource. A staple of the Ojibway diet and economy for centuries, wild rice has now become a gourmet food. With twentieth-century agricultural technology and paddy cultivation, white growers have virtually removed this important source of income from Indigenous hands. Nevertheless, the Ojibway continue to harvest and process rice each year. It remains a vital part of their social, cultural, and religious life.
Author: Ruth Landes
Publisher: New York : AMS Press
Published: 1937
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780404505790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael David McNally
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780873516419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people. Author Michael McNally uses hymn singing as a lens to view culture in motion--to consider the broader cultural processes through which Native American peoples have creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to make room for survival, integrity, and a cultural identity within the confines of colonialism.
Author: Justin Blake Richland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780759112117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the only available comprehensive introduction to tribal law. It is an indispensable resource for students, tribal leaders, and professionals interested in the complicated relationship between tribal, federal, and state law.