Indigenous religions : a companion /
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London ; New York :
Cassell,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- The cosmos as intersubjective: Native American other-than-human persons / Kenneth M. Morrison
- Native womanism: exemplars of indigenism in sacred traditions of kinship / M.A. Jaimes Guerrero
- Shamanism / Piers Vitebsky
- Witchcraft and healing among the Bangwa of Cameroon / Fiona Bowie
- Rattray's request: spirit possession among the Bono of West Africa / Jan G. Platvoet
- Mana and tapu: sacred knowledge, sacred boundaries / Peter J. Mataira
- Magic, religion and secularity among the Azande and Nuer / Berel Dov Lerner
- The Dreaming in contemporary aboriginal Australia / Lynne Hume
- Ecology and religion in Karuk orientations toward the land / Sean M. Connors
- Art works in Aotearoa / Graham Harvey
- Music, art and movement among the Yoruba / Olu Taiwo
- The unweildy promise of ceremonies: the case of the Jakalteko Maya's dance of the conquest / Charles D. Thompson, Jr.
- Rites of passage among the Lohorung Rai of East Nepal / Charlotte E. Hardman
- Gifts for the sky people: animal sacrifice, head hunting and power among the Naga of Burma and Assam / Mark R. Woodward
- Characteristics of African indigenous religions in contemporary Zimbabwe / James L. Cox
- Spirituality, values and boundaries in the revitalization of a Mi'kmaq community / Raoul R. Andersen, John K. Crellin and Misel Joe
- Touching the past, teaching ways forward: the American Indian powwow / Teri Brewer.