Ethnic Tribal category: 190 books
Tragic Spirits
Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy—an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets—quickly led to impoverishment, especially in rural parts of the country, where Tragic Spirits...
by William W. Canfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
It is not the purpose of this volume to deal to any considerable extent with the history of the Indians, but simply to present some of the legends of the Iroquois. To the reader or student, however, is due a brief statement as to the authority from which the folk-lore contained herein has been drawn,...
Iroquois Mythology
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The principal monuments of the once powerful Iroquois are their myths and folklore, with the language in which they are embodied. As these monuments are fast crumbling away, through their...
by Alan Leddon
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Alan Leddon once again delights and educates readers of all ages in this installment in the "A Child's Eye View" series. It features the artwork of Kidril Telrunya and scholarly research along with some personal experience with the mythological Fairies of cultures from all six inhabited continents....
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of Ifá—its discourse, ways of thinking, and artistic expression as manifested throughout the Afro-Atlantic. Firmly rooting Ifá within African religious traditions, the essays consider...
The Cooking of History
How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides...
Electric Santería
Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture...
Living Santería
Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha “house” and has initiated five others as priests. He is a rare combination: a scholar-practitioner who is equally fluent in...
The Formation of Candomblé
Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil...
by Frank Gaynor
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The Dictionay of Mysticism provides concise definitions for over 2,200 terms used in many philosophies, religions, and doctrines which relate to the influence of the superhuman and supernatural on man’s everyday life. Terms relating to esoteric philosophy, occultism, religious mysticism, spiritualism,...
The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)
Light on the Indian World
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) was raised in both the traditional world of the Santee Sioux and the modern civilization of the whites. The Essential Charles Eastman contains selections from the most well known of his published works. Completely revised and updated, this new edition contains new photographs, a new introduction, and a complete bibliography of Eastman’s writings.
Finding Kluskap
A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The Mi’kmaq of eastern Canada were among the first indigenous North Americans to encounter colonial Europeans. As early as the mid-sixteenth century, they were trading with French fishers, and by the mid-seventeenth century, large numbers of Mi’kmaq had converted to Catholicism. Mi’kmaw Catholicism...
A Year in White
Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During this time, these novices—called iyawo—endure a host of prohibitions, including most notably wearing...
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and...