Indigenous religions
Subtitle: a companion
By: edited by Graham Harvey
Contributors: Harvey, Graham
Publisher: Cassell; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-289) and indexes
Table of contents: title: The cosmos as intersubjective: Native American other-than-human persons / Kenneth M. Morrison; title: Native womanism: exemplars of indigenism in sacred traditions of kinship / M.A. Jaimes Guerrero; title: Shamanism / Piers Vitebsky; title: Witchcraft and healing among the Bangwa of Cameroon / Fiona Bowie; title: Rattray's request: spirit possession among the Bono of West Africa / Jan G. Platvoet; title: Mana and tapu: sacred knowledge, sacred boundaries / Peter J. Mataira; title: Magic, religion and secularity among the Azande and Nuer / Berel Dov Lerner; title: The Dreaming in contemporary aboriginal Australia / Lynne Hume; title: Ecology and religion in Karuk orientations toward the land / Sean M. Connors; title: Art works in Aotearoa / Graham Harvey; title: Music, art and movement among the Yoruba / Olu Taiwo; title: The unweildy promise of ceremonies: the case of the Jakalteko Maya's dance of the conquest / Charles D. Thompson, Jr.; title: Rites of passage among the Lohorung Rai of East Nepal / Charlotte E. Hardman; title: Gifts for the sky people: animal sacrifice, head hunting and power among the Naga of Burma and Assam / Mark R. Woodward; title: Characteristics of African indigenous religions in contemporary Zimbabwe / James L. Cox; title: Spirituality, values and boundaries in the revitalization of a Mi'kmaq community / Raoul R. Andersen, John K. Crellin and Misel Joe; title: Touching the past, teaching ways forward: the American Indian powwow / Teri Brewer