Shattered Images : Dialogues and Meditations on Tsimshian Narratives


John. Cove
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
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Montréal : : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2000.
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1 online resource (329 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""The Carleton Library Series""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""Chapter 1: Perceptions ""; ""Boas and Reconstruction through Myth ""; ""Phenomenology and Reconstruction through Narratives ""; ""An Ethnographic Overview of Tsimshian Oral Tradition ""; ""Notes "". - ""6. Names for Slate Mirrors "". - ""Appendix: Narrative Index """"Bibliography ""; ""Index ""; ""List of Tables ""; ""1. Tsimshian Clans and Crests ""; ""2. Gitksan Crests and Referents ""; ""3. Houses by Cultural Division and Crest ""; ""4. An Inventory of Shamanic Regalia ""; ""5. The Mirror Hypotheses and Variables "". - ""Cannibals and Destroyers """"Residual Problems and Naxnox Dramatizations ""; ""The Story Ends ""; ""Notes ""; ""Chapter V: Projections and Images ""; ""The Tsimshian Concept ""; ""Dialogue Between Images of Humanness ""; ""The Denial of Death ""; ""Freedom and Fallibility "". - ""Chapter II: The Totemic Vision """"On Mortality and Existence ""; ""Contingency and Luck ""; ""Humans as Real-Beings ""; ""Crests and Powers ""; ""Names and Real-Being ""; ""The Story Begins ""; ""Notes ""; ""Chapter III: Reflections in a Shaman's Mirror ""; ""The Shaman�s Mirror "". - ""The Meditation Experiments """"Becoming a Shaman ""; ""The Shaman as Healer ""; ""The Story Continues ""; ""Notes ""; ""Chapter IV: Secret Societies and Refractions ""; ""The Origins of Secret Societies ""; ""Categories and Collectives ""; ""Secret Society Rituals ""; ""Dancers and Dog-Eaters ""
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