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Blackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization (Paperback)
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Blackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization (Paperback)
Series: Vitality of Indigenous Religions
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This book explores the exchange of Blackfoot "medicine bundles"
within contemporary Blackfoot culture and between the Blackfoot
Peoples and Euro-Americans. These ceremonial bundles, which are
circulated as gifts in their native context, are robbed of their
statuses as living beings or persons, when they are treated as
symbolic objects or commodities by cultural outsiders. Much of the
original, ethnographic data presented in this book deals with the
attempts of some Blackfeet to repatriate ceremonial materials from
Euro-American hands. This book represents a valuable study of
contemporary Blackfoot religion as well as the repatriation
movement. Kenneth Lokensgard also contributes to the studies of
material culture and exchange; central to his investigation is the
critical examination and reapplication of the interpretative terms
"gift" and "commodity." Careful use of these terms, Lokensgard
argues, can better help scholars appreciate how different peoples
perceive the worlds they inhabit.
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