"The Orders of the Dreamed" George Nelson on Cree and northern Ojibwa religion and myth, 1823 /
Transcription of 1823 diary by a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader in northeastern Saskatchewan which discusses the religion and mythic themes of the northern Ojibway and Cree. Also includes two essays: On Nelson's text by Stan Cuthand and On the ethics of publishing historical documents by...
| Основен автор: | Nelson, George, 1786-1859. |
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| Други автори: | Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940-, Brightman, Robert Alain, 1950- |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Winnipeg :
University of Manitoba Press,
1988.
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| Серия: |
Manitoba studies in native history ;
3. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=541751 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Orders of the Dreamed". |
Съдържание:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTION""; ""George Nelson""; ""Background, Career, and Writings""; ""Family and Childhood""; ""The Wisconsin Years""; ""The Lake Winnipeg Period""; ""A Decade of Changes""; ""The Lac la Ronge Phase""; ""Interpreting the Indians: Nelson's Frameworks and Dilemmas""; ""Editorial Procedures""; ""PART II: GEORGE NELSON'S LETTER-JOURNAL""; ""Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, December 1819""; ""Dreaming to Conjure and Predict""; ""The Spirits, their Shapes, and their Songs""; ""The Supreme Being""
- ""Old Nick (Key-jick-oh-kay)""""Other Beings""; ""The Sun; Nelson's Dream""; ""Roots and Herbs""; ""The Manner of Conjuring""; ""The Spirits Enter: Their Names and Natures""; ""The Conjurors' Power""; ""A Cree Myth, 1823: The Birth of Wee-suck-a-jock and Mi-shaw-bose""; ""The Battle of Weesuckajock and the Water Lynxes""; ""The Making of the Land""; ""The Making of Human Beings""; ""The Son of Weesuckajock""; ""Sickness in Spirit Form: A Lac la Ronge Cree Account""; ""The Spirits' Gifts and Demands""; ""Encounters with Pah-kack (Skeleton)""; ""Sacrifices and Feasts for Pah-kack""
- ""Pah-kack Feasts at Lac la Ronge""""Medicines and the Abode of ""Esculapius""""; ""Songs: Their Transmission and Uses""; ""Conjuring against Starvation, Wisconsin, 1804""; ""The Soul""; ""Soul-darting""; ""Sorcery for Protection and Revenge""; ""Sexual Sorcery""; ""Hunting Medicine""; ""Love Medicine""; ""Hunters Bewitched and Restored""; ""An Iroquois Hunter Bewitched""; ""Stories of Nay-han-nee-mis""; ""Man in his Natural State""; ""Skepticism, Belief, and Innovation""; ""Conjuring for a North West Company Gentleman""; ""The Lost Traveller and the Wolf Spirit""; ""Pursuit by a Pah-kack""
- ""The Windigo""""Baiting a Windigo""; ""Sources and Forms of Windigo""; ""Windigo Dreams""; ""Windigo Possession, Lake Winnipeg""; ""A Windigo Execution""; ""Windigo Cures and Precautions""; ""Malignant Spirits""; ""Affinities and Origins""; ""Deviance, Confession, and Expiation""; ""Feasts""; ""Conjuring at Lac la Ronge, June 1823""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""Key-shay-mani-to""; ""Kee-jick-oh-kay""; ""Wee-suck-a-jock""; ""Michi-Pichoux""; ""Sea Serpent""; ""O-may-me-thay-day-ace-cae-wuck""; ""Mermaid and Sea Man""; ""Mee-key-nock""; ""Bull or Buffaloe""; ""Pah-kack (Skeleton)""
- ""North Wind/North""""Thunder""; ""Crazy Woman/Foolish, Mad, Jealous Woman/Folly/Jealousy""; ""Nay-han-nee-mis""; ""Mee-shaw-bose/Mi-shaw-bose""; ""Sun""; ""Moon""; ""Esculapius""; ""Sickness/Plague""; ""Strong Neck/Hercules""; ""Pike/Jackfish""; ""Loon""; ""Wolverine""; ""Flying Squirrel""; ""Bear""; ""Dog""; ""Snow""; ""Kingfisher""; ""Horse""; ""Ice""; ""Stone""; ""PART III: NORTHERN ALGONQUIAN RELIGIOUS AND MYTHIC THEMES AND PERSONAGES: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS""; ""Cosmogonic Myths and Beings from Lac la Ronge""; ""The Trickster-Transformer, Wisahkecahk""