Barbara Alice Mann

SPIRITS OF BLOOD SPIRIT OF BREATH P

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ancient North American cultures shared long-standing philosophical precepts, the most important of which was the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath, or the view of reality as a collaborative binary of blood and breath, or air and water.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780199997190
• ISBN-10: 0199997195
• Artikelnr.: 47869071

Autorenporträt

Barbara Alice Mann is an Associate Professor in the Jesup Scott Honors College at the University of Toledo, in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She has published widely in the areas of Native American history, women's studies, and literature. She lives and works in the Land of the Three Miamis.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction: Style, and Sources, and Methods-Oh, My!
Chapter 1. "Grandfather God" and the Missionaries: "Totally Good for Nothing"
Chapter 2. The Twinned Cosmos of Serpents and Thunderbirds
Chapter 3. Sweats of the Living and the Dead
Chapter 4. Visions and Dreams
Chapter 5. Giants and Dwarfs
Chapter 6. Afterlife, Resuscitation, and Reincarnation
Chapter 7. The Harmony Way
Notes
Bibliography
Index