Amerindian Rebirth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amerindian Rebirth write by Canadian Anthropology Society. Meeting. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Amerindian Rebirth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day. Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeenth-century Huron eschatology, Winnebago ideology, varying forms of Inuit belief, and concepts of rebirth found among subarctic natives and Northwest Coast peoples. The closing chapters address the genesis and anthropological study of Amerindian reincarnation. In addition, the possibility of evidence for the actuality of rebirth is addressed. Amerindian Rebirth will further our understanding of concepts of self-identity, kinship, religion, cosmology, resiliency, and change among native North American peoples
Amerindian Rebirth
Amerindian Rebirth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amerindian Rebirth write by Antonia Curtze Mills. This book was released on 1993. Amerindian Rebirth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians
Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians write by Warren Jefferson. This book was released on 2009-03-25. Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here is an in-depth look at spiritual experiences about which very little has been written. Belief in reincarnation exists not only in India but in most small tribal societies throughout the world, including many Indian groups in North America. The reader is offered a rich tapestry of stories from a number of North American tribes about death, dying, and returning to this life. Included are stories from the Inuit of the polar regions; the Northwest Coast people, such as the Kwakiutl, the Gitxsan, the Tlingit, and the Suquamish; the Hopi and the Cochiti of the Southwest; the Winnebago of the Great Lakes region; the Cherokee of the Southeast,; and the Sioux people of the Plains area. Readers will learn about a Winnebago shaman's initiation, the Cherokee's Orpheus myth, the Hopi story of A Journey to the Skeleton House, the Inuit man who lived the lives of all animals, the Ghost Dance, and other extraordinary accounts. The ethnological record indicates reincarnation beliefs are found among the indigenous peoples on all continents of this earth as well as in most of the world's major religions. This book makes a valuable contribution towards having a deeper understanding of North American Indian spiritual beliefs.
Imagining Karma
Imagining Karma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Karma write by Gananath Obeyesekere. This book was released on 2002-11-11. Imagining Karma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With 'Imagining Karma', Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. The book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of 'family resemblances' and differences across great cultural divides.
Karma and Rebirth
Karma and Rebirth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Karma and Rebirth write by Gananath Obeyesekere. This book was released on 2006. Karma and Rebirth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small scale indigenous societies of West Africa, Melanesia, and North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritiative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth.
