Download e-book for kindle: Mi'kmaq Landscapes: From Animism to Sacred Ecology (Vitality by Anne-Christine Hornborg

This ebook seeks to discover ancient adjustments within the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of japanese Canada. The Mi'kmaq tradition hero Kluskap serves as a key character in discussing matters equivalent to traditions, altering conceptions of land, and human-environmental family. so as to not depict Mi'kmaq tradition as undying, very important classes in its heritage are tested. in the first interval, among 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores ancient facts of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - together labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi'kmaq searching subsistence. New methods of discussing animism and shamanism are right here richly exemplified. the second one research situates the tradition hero within the sleek global of the Nineties, while allusions to Mi'kmaq culture and to Kluskap performed an enormous function within the fight opposed to a deliberate superquarry on Cape Breton. This examine discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated via smooth reserve population which can be labelled a 'sacred ecology'.

Focusing on how the Mi'kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental relatives in interplay with glossy society, Hornborg illustrates how environmental teams, pan-Indianism, and schooling play an immense position, yet so does reserve existence. via anchoring their engagement in reserve lifestyles the Mi'kmaq traditionalists have, to a wide quantity, been capable of confront either exterior and inner doubts approximately their authenticity.