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Visiting the Six Worlds : Shamanistic Journeys in Canadian Mi'kmaq Cosmology

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Mi’kmaq Indians’ descriptions of journeys between parallel worlds, as we find them in tales collected from the early seventeenth century to the earlier twentieth, are far too complex to fit into Mircea Eliade’s model of shamanism or romantic images of Indians as being “one with nature”. The tales reveal six parallel worlds in which all types of beings belongs to families, have wigwams, and search for food. The parallelism between the worlds has no significance for beings living their ordinary lives, but it is of the utmost importance for understanding how differing types of beings (people, animals, supernaturals) achieve interworlds journeys. The notions of cosmological deixis and perspectivism are used to explore the narratives and shed light on Mi’kmaq cosmology.

Publiceringsår

2006

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

312-336

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of American Folklore

Volym

119

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

American Folklore Society

Ämne

  • History of Religions

Nyckelord

  • cosmological deixis
  • Mi’kmaq tales
  • shamanism
  • traditional ecological knowledge
  • interworlds journeys
  • perspectivism

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0021-8715