Honoring elders aging, authority, and Ojibwe religion /
Using archival and ethnographic research, Michael D. McNally follows the making of Ojibwe eldership, showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral, aesthetic, and cosmological vision connected to the ongoing circle of life and tradition of authority that has been crucial to...
| Main Author: | McNally, Michael David. |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2009]
|
| Physical Description: |
xxi, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.)
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Aging and the life cycle imagined in Ojibwe tradition and lived in history
- Eldership, respect, and the sacred community
- Elders as grandparents and teachers
- Elders articulating tradition
- The sacralization of eldership
- The shape of wisdom.