World view

Corrigan, Samuel W. (Samuel Walter), 1939- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0969549849 (bound) :
ISBN: 0969549857 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: print
viii, 284 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Brandon, Man. : Bearpaw Pub., c1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references: 257-284.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Cosmology: 1. Diversity in cosmology: the case of the Wind River Shoshoni -- 2. Coyote in Navajo religion -- 3. Contests of power in Blackfoot life and mythology -- 4. Shadow and substance: a Mopan Maya view of human existence -- Part III. Dealing with the spirits: 5. The nonempirical environment of the Arctic Alaskan Eskimos -- 6. Beaver dreaming and singing -- 7. Kutchin concepts of reincarnation -- 8. Cosmological implications of pan-Indian sacred pipe ritual -- Part IV. Dealing with time and space: 9. Star clocks: Mescalero Apache ceremonial timing -- 10. Medicine wheels, sun circles, and the magic of center shrines -- 11. Seneca Iroquois concepts of time -- Part V. The Lakota experience: Introduction -- 12. The sun dance -- 13. Native American resistance to integration: contemporary confrontations and religious revitalization -- 14. Voice in the blood: suffering and compassion -- 15. The road to the center -- 16. Eagles fly over -- 17. Prayer to the west -- 18. The call to remember -- Part VI. The real world of cosmology: 19. Coyote's eyes: Native cognition styles -- 20. Non-authority in Nicola Valley Indian culture and implications for education.