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Blackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization

By: Kenneth Hayes Lokensgard

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Blackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization

By: Kenneth Hayes Lokensgard

This book explores the exchange of Blackfoot "medicine bundles" within contemporary Blackfoot culture and between the Blackfoot Peoples and Euro-Americans. These ceremonial bundles, which are circulated as gifts in their native context, are robbed of their statuses as living beings or persons, when they are treated as symbolic objects or commodities by cultural outsiders. Much of the original, ethnographic data presented in this book deals with the attempts of some Blackfeet to repatriate ceremonial materials from Euro-American hands. This book represents a valuable study of contemporary Blackfoot religion as well as the repatriation movement. Kenneth Lokensgard also contributes to the studies of material culture and exchange; central to his investigation is the critical examination and reapplication of the interpretative terms "gift" and "commodity." Careful use of these terms, Lokensgard argues, can better help scholars appreciate how different peoples perceive the worlds they inhabit.

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Routledge

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1317173805

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9781317173809

The Solidarity of Kin

Ethnohistory, Religious Studies, and the Algonkian-French Religious Encounter

By: Kenneth M. Morrison

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The Solidarity of Kin

Ethnohistory, Religious Studies, and the Algonkian-French Religious Encounter

By: Kenneth M. Morrison

Arguing that Native Americans' religious life and history have been misinterpreted, author Kenneth M. Morrison reconstructs the Eastern Algonkians' world views and demonstrates the indigenous modes of rationality that shaped not only their encounter with the French but also their self-directed process of religious change. In reassessing controversial anthropological, historical, and ethnohistorical scholarship, Morrison develops interpretive strategies that are more responsive to the religious world views of the Eastern Algonkian peoples. He concludes that the Eastern Algonkians did not convert to Catholicism, but rather applied traditional knowledge and values to achieve a pragmatic and critical sense of Christianity and to preserve and extend kinship solidarity into the future. The result was a remarkable intersection of Eastern Algonkian and missionary cosmologies.

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State University of New York Press

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0791488403

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9780791488409

Blackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization

By: Dr Kenneth Hayes Lokensgard

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1409481115

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Blackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization

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The Solidarity of Kin

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Blackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization

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