Spirit wars : Native North American religions in the age of nation building /
Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case...
| Основен автор: | Niezen, Ronald. |
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| Други автори: | Burgess, Kim. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2000.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112976 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Spirit wars. |
| Резюме: |
Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-c. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xviii, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520923430 052092343X 1417523336 9781417523337 9780520209855 0520209850 9780520219878 0520219872 1597349135 9781597349130 |