Mi'kmaq landscapes : from animism to sacred ecology

Anne-Christine Hornborg

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 and that 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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[目次]

  • Part I Introduction
  • History.
  • Part II On the Phenomenological Foundation of Indian Romanticism: Nature and culture as separate entities or as a unit
  • An anthropocentric or a biocentric worldview
  • Animism, relationalism and locality in Mi'kmaq cosmology
  • The 'indian' and the place
  • Local lifeworlds and abstract constructions.
  • Part III 'Till They Saw Him No More' (1850-1930): To turn the perspective - can silent voices speak?
  • The little stories and their embeddedness in the local lifeworld
  • The little stories and their encompassment of the global world
  • The dream of utopia.
  • Part IV Interlude (1930-1970) Kluskap in dormancy
  • To glimpse the shadow of Kluskap.
  • Part V The Return of Kluskap (1970-2000): A model of manifold dimensions
  • The lived world and the images
  • Tradition as a weapon
  • References
  • Index.

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書名 Mi'kmaq landscapes : from animism to sacred ecology
著作者等 Hornborg Anne-Christine
シリーズ名 Vitality of indigenous religions
出版元 Ashgate
刊行年月 c2008
ページ数 202 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780754663713
NCID BA89076276
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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