Honoring elders : aging, authority, and Ojibwe religion /
Using archival and ethnographic research, Michael D. McNally follows the making of Ojibwe eldership, showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral, aesthetic, and cosmological vision connected to the ongoing circle of life and tradition of authority that has been crucial to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.)
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| Summary: | Using archival and ethnographic research, Michael D. McNally follows the making of Ojibwe eldership, showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral, aesthetic, and cosmological vision connected to the ongoing circle of life and tradition of authority that has been crucial to surviving colonization. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-364) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231145022 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231145020 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231145039 (pbk.) 0231145039 (pbk.) 9780231518253 (e) 0231518250 (e) |
