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Mi'kmaq Landscapes - From Animism to Sacred Ecology (Paperback)
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Mi'kmaq Landscapes - From Animism to Sacred Ecology (Paperback)
Series: Vitality of Indigenous Religions
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This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of
the Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi'kmaq culture hero
Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as
traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental
relations. In order not to depict Mi'kmaq culture as timeless, two
important periods in its history are examined. Within the first
period, between 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores historical
evidence of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - jointly
labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi'kmaq hunting
subsistence. New ways of discussing animism and shamanism are here
richly exemplified. The second study situates the culture hero in
the modern world of the 1990s, when allusions to Mi'kmaq tradition
and to Kluskap played an important role in the struggle against a
planned superquarry on Cape Breton. This study discusses the
eco-cosmology that has been formulated by modern reserve
inhabitants which could be labelled a 'sacred ecology'. Focusing on
how the Mi'kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental
relations in interaction with modern society, Hornborg illustrates
how environmental groups, pan-Indianism, and education play an
important role, but so does reserve life. By anchoring their
engagement in reserve life the Mi'kmaq traditionalists have, to a
large extent, been able to confront both external and internal
doubts about their authenticity.
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