Ways of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Dene ThaThe creative world of a northern Native community is revealed in this innovative book. Once semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers, the Dene Tha of northern Canada today live in government-built homes in the settlement of Chateh. Their lives are a distinct blend of old and new, in which more traditional forms of social control, healing, and praying entwine with services supplied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a nursing station, and a Roman Catholic church. Many older cultural beliefs and practices remain: ghosts still linger, reincarnating and sometimes stealing children's souls; dreams and visions are powerful shapers of actions; and personal visions and experiences are considered the sources of true knowledge. |
Contents
Stories from the Field | 1 |
True Knowledge and True Responsibility | 27 |
Powerful Beings and Being Powerful | 60 |
Powers to Heal Powers to Respect | 88 |
Visions of Conflict Conflicts of Vision | 109 |
Journeys of the Soul | 142 |
Searching for a Womb | 167 |
When the Drum and the Rosary Meet | 193 |
Dancing Your Way to Heaven | 223 |
An Experiential Approach to Knowledge | 246 |
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Ways of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Dene Tha Jean-Guy Goulet Limited preview - 1998 |
Ways of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Dene Tha Jean-Guy Goulet Limited preview - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
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