Honoring elders
Subtitle: Ojibwe aging, religion, and authority
By: Michael D. McNally.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231145022; 9780231145039; 9780231518253
Subjects: Older Ojibwa Indians; Ojibwa Indians -- Religion; Ojibwa Indians -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aging and the life cycle imagined in Ojibwe tradition and lived in history; title: Eldership, respect, and the sacred community; title: Elders as grandparents and teachers; title: Elders articulating tradition; title: The sacralization of eldership; title: The shape of wisdom.