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The Solidarity of Kin
Author: Kenneth M. Morrison
Year: 2002
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 11 MB
Language: English

Arguing that Native Americans religious life and history have been misinterpreted author Kenneth M Morrison reconstructs the Eastern Algonkians world views and demonstrates the indigenous modes of rationality that shaped not only their encounter with the French but also their self directed process of religious change In reassessing controversial anthropological historical and ethnohistorical scholarship Morrison develops interpretive strategies that are more responsive to the religious world views of the Eastern Algonkian peoples He concludes that the Eastern Algonkians did not convert to Catholicism but rather applied traditional knowledge and values to achieve a pragmatic and critical sense of Christianity and to preserve and extend kinship solidarity into the future The result was a remarkable intersection of Eastern Algonkian and missionary cosmologies

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