Honoring elders : aging, authority, and Ojibwe religion /

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Author / Creator:McNally, Michael David, author.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Description:1 online resource (xxi, 382 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Language:English
Series:Religion and American Culture
Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123790
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ISBN:9780231518253
0231518250
9780231145022
9780231145039
1281728292
9781281728296
9786613789075
6613789070
0231145020
9780231145022
0231145039
9780231145039
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Jstor, viewed May 21, 2018).
Summary:Like many Native Americans, Ojibwe people esteem the wisdom, authority, and religious significance of old age, but this respect does not come easily or naturally. It is the fruit of hard work, rooted in narrative traditions, moral vision, and ritualized practices of decorum that are comparable in sophistication to those of Confucianism. Even as the dispossession and policies of assimilation have threatened Ojibwe peoplehood and have targeted the traditions and the elders who embody it, Ojibwe and other Anishinaabe communities have been resolute and resourceful in their disciplined resp.
Other form:Print version: McNally, Michael David. Honoring elders. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009 9780231145022
Standard no.:10.7312/mcna14502

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