TY - BOOK ID - 77890019 TI - Amerindian Rebirth AU - Mills, Antonia AU - Slobodin, Richard PY - 1994 SN - 1282045857 9786612045851 1442670762 9781442670761 9781282045859 0802028292 9780802028297 080207703X 9780802077035 661204585X PB - Toronto DB - UniCat KW - Indians of North America KW - Indian mythology KW - Inuit KW - Inuit mythology KW - Mythology, Inuit KW - Innuit KW - Inupik KW - Eskimos KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians KW - First Nations (North America) KW - Indians of the United States KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Native Americans KW - North American Indians KW - Indians KW - Mythology, Indian KW - Mythology KW - Religion KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Religion and mythology KW - Eskimo. KW - Indianer. KW - USA KW - North America. KW - Turtle Island KW - United States of America KW - Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika KW - Nordamerika KW - Amerika KW - United States KW - Etats Unis KW - Etats-Unis KW - Vereinigte Staaten KW - Estados Unidos de America KW - EEUU KW - Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika KW - Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki KW - SŠA KW - Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej KW - Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs KW - Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs KW - HēPA KW - Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs KW - ĒPA KW - Meiguo KW - Etats-Unis d'Amérique KW - US KW - Amerikaner KW - Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77890019 AB - "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."--Publisher website. ER -