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Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach and guide the young-mnemonics for narratives. Lankford's volume focuses on the ancient North Americans and the ways they identified, patterned, ordered, and used the stars to light their culture and illuminate their traditions. They knew them as regions that could be visited by human spirits, and so the ligh

Ethnoastronomy --- Indian mythology --- Indian cosmology --- Cultural astronomy --- Folk astronomy --- Indigenous peoples --- Native astronomy --- Astronomy --- Ethnology --- Indians --- Mythology, Indian --- Mythology --- Cosmology, Indian --- Cosmology --- Religion and mythology

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La reconnaissance de droits constitutionnels aux peuples indigènes de la Colombie et du Venezuela vient profondément modifier les relations établies entre ceux-ci, l'État et la société civile. Les rapports de domination laissent désormais place à un jeu plus complexe, stratégique, entre les différents acteurs. Ce livre étudie ces bouleversements et ces jeux sous l'angle conjoint de la politique et du droit. Il analyse la place de la différence dans ces États à travers les jeux des acteurs, en particulier indigènes. Pluridisciplinaire, l'ouvrage est aussi une tentative d'aborder les politiques des identités sans oublier le poids des imaginaires et des cultures. Sur un mode résolument interculturel, la réflexion porte ainsi sur la manière dont les représentations, les visions du monde propres à chaque société (indigènes/étatiques) - qui sont dynamiques dans le temps et les espaces - conditionnent leur entendement du multiculturalisme et, surtout, structurent leurs relations.

Indians of South America --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Government relations --- Droit --- Relations avec l'Etat --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Indian cosmology. --- Government relations. --- Relations avec l'État. --- Droits --- Colombie --- Venezuela --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Political science --- Indigenous people --- Latin America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Cosmology, Indian --- Cosmology --- Ethnology

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La Sierra Norte de Puebla, numerosas veces recorrida por Guy Stresser-Péan, es una regìón particularmente interesante debido a su carácter pluriétnico, que se expresa en la convivencia de tres lenguas: totonaca, otomí y náhuatl. Es un lugar privilegiado para la observación del sincretismo ocurrido bajo la influencia de la doctrina cristiana, que se refleja en las ceremonias, las danzas y las ideas indígenas relacionadas con Dios, con el alma y con los seres espirituales, pero también en la concepción del espacio, el tiempo, la vida y la muerte. Las creencias relativas a la Luna, y en mayor medida al Sol, Ilaman la atención de manera particular, ya que este astro se asimila a Jesucristo, tanto por parte de los indios de la sierra como por los de la Huasteca. Quetzalcóati 9 Viento, el héroe cultural de una parte de la sierra, el espíritu del dios del maíz, sigue siendo venerado como precursor del Sol, y a veces se confunde con Cristo. Este libro aporta, además, el complemento indispensable de la perspectiva indígena, in situ, en la diacronía y la diversidad de las situaciones. Al término de sus lecturas e investigaciones y de la confrontación con las fuentes, Stresser-Péan Ilega de manera natural a la explicación que se desprende de todo ello, describiendo el ambiente de religiosidad que impregna la existencia cotidiana de los indios de México, las danzas practicadas desde los tiempos más antiguos, y los rezos dirigidos a los dioses. Es así que los indios de la meseta central parecen completamente convertidos al cristianismo, sin embargo, los grupos indígenas de la Sierra de Puebla practican un cristianismo sincero pero teñido de paganismo. En El Sol-Dios y Cristo estos hechos son convocados y hablan por sí solos a través de un intérprete receptivo. “Tanto por su multiplicidad como por su gran amplitud, los temas abordados en este libro constituyen una verdadera Suma, una obra de consulta que de ahora en adelante se volverá imprescindible para todos los mexicanistas.”

Indians of Mexico --- Indian cosmology. --- Evangelistic work --- Christianity and culture --- Religion. --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- Evangelism --- Proselytizing --- Revival (Religion) --- Theology, Practical --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Religious awakening --- Cosmology, Indian --- Cosmology --- Christianity --- Religion and mythology --- indios de México --- Sierra de Puebla --- sincretismo --- ceremonias indigenas --- doctrina cristiana

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The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, these artifacts of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood were the subject of the groundbreaking 2007 book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography, which presented a major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the Mississippian peoples. Visualizing the Sacred advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS). Bringing archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art, contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments. These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized, yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time.

Mississippian culture. --- Mississippian art. --- Indian cosmology --- Indians of North America --- Visions --- Regionalism --- History --- Religion. --- Mississippi River Valley --- Middle West --- Southern States --- East (U.S.) --- Antiquities. --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Cosmology, Indian --- Cosmology --- Art, Mississippian --- Art, American --- Temple Mound culture --- Mound-builders --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Antiquities --- American Midwest --- Central States --- Central States Region --- Midwest --- Midwest States --- Midwestern States --- North Central Region --- North Central States --- Northwest, Old --- Mississippi Valley --- Eastern States (U.S.) --- Eastern United States --- United States, Eastern