| Description |
xvii, 179 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
English and Chippewa. |
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Selections from: Ojibwa texts / collected by William Jones. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 167-173. |
| Contents |
Introductory essay: World view and narrative tradition -- Wold view and philosophy -- World view in culture -- Language, world view, and cultural relativism -- Approaching world views through narratives -- An introduction to the Ojibwa narratives -- The narratives -- The orphans and mashos -- The brothers' escape -- The contest with mashos -- The first-born son -- Clothed in fur -- The woman who married a beaver -- The boy that was carried away by a bear -- The youth who was lead about by the Chief of the Sturgeons -- A moose and his offspring -- Floating-net stick -- Now Great-Lynx -- Little-image -- The bear-game -- He who over-dreamed -- Hero -- Snapping-turtle and caddice-fly -- Star of the fisher -- Skunk, awl, cranberry and the old moccasin -- The person that made medicine -- Nanabushu, the sweet-brier berries, and the sturgeons -- The death of Nanabushu's cousin, the wolf -- Nanabushu and the great fisher -- Nanabushu, the bungling host -- Nanabushu is fed met from the back of a woman -- Nanabushu and the woodpecker -- Nanabushu is miraculously fed bear grease -- Nanabushu and the mallard -- Nanabushu is given power by the skunk, but wastes it -- Interpretive essay: understanding an Ojibwa world view -- The elements of the world view -- Power -- Metamorphosis -- The situation of blessing -- Disobedience and its consequences -- Reciprocity, life, and death -- Dreams -- World view and 'reality' -- World view and the good life -- World view and an Ojibwa environmental ethic -- The constancy of the world view. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Ojibwa philosophy.
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Ojibwa Indians -- Folklore.
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| Added Author |
Overholt, Thomas W., 1935-
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Callicott, J. Baird.
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Jones, William, 1871-1909.
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| ISBN |
0819123641 |
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081912365X (paperback) |
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