Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit

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Until now few people have been conscious about the prevalence of belief in some type of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This number of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day.

Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and number of recorded belief. The entire papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in quite a lot of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeenth-century Huron eschatology, Winnebago ideology, varying sorts of Inuit belief, and concepts of rebirth found among subarctic natives and Northwest Coast peoples.

The closing chapters address the genesis and anthropological study of Amerindian reincarnation. As well as, the opportunity of evidence for the actuality of rebirth is addressed. Amerindian Rebirth will further our working out of concepts of self-identity, kinship, religion, cosmology, resiliency, and change among native North American peoples

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