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Indigenous religions : a companion
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Indigenous religions : a companion

Author: Graham Harvey
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell, 2000.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Graham Harvey
ISBN: 0304704482 9780304704484 0304704474 9780304704477
OCLC Number: 42021452
Description: xii, 302 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The cosmos as intersubjective: Native American other-than-human persons / Kenneth M. Morrison -- Native womanism: exemplars of indigenism in sacred traditions of kinship / M.A. Jaimes Guerrero -- Shamanism / Piers Vitebsky -- Witchcraft and healing among the Bangwa of Cameroon / Fiona Bowie -- Rattray's request: spirit possession among the Bono of West Africa / Jan G. Platvoet -- Mana and tapu: sacred knowledge, sacred boundaries / Peter J. Mataira -- Magic, religion and secularity among the Azande and Nuer / Berel Dov Lerner -- The Dreaming in contemporary aboriginal Australia / Lynne Hume -- Ecology and religion in Karuk orientations toward the land / Sean M. Connors -- Art works in Aotearoa / Graham Harvey -- Music, art and movement among the Yoruba / Olu Taiwo -- The unwieldy promise of ceremonies: the case of the Jakalteko Maya's dance of the conquest / Charles D. Thompson, Jr. -- Rites of passage among the Lohorung Rai of East Nepal / Charlotte E. Hardman -- Gifts for the sky people: animal sacrifice, head hunting and power among the Naga of Burma and Assam / Mark R. Woodward -- Characteristics of African indigenous religions in contemporary Zimbabwe / James L. Cox -- Spirituality, values and boundaries in the revitalization of a Mi'kmaq community / Raoul R. Andersen, John K. Crellin and Misel Joe -- Touching the past, teaching ways forward: the American Indian powwow / Teri Brewer.
Responsibility: edited by Graham Harvey.

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