Book
Traditional Ojibwa religion and its historical changes
American Philosophical Society • 152 • Published In 1983 • Pages: x, 233
By: Vecsey, Christopher.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work describes and analyzes traditional Ojibwa religion and the changes it has undergone from the seventeenth century to approximately the late 1970s. The document contains an abundance of data on Christian missions among the Ojibwa, the Ojibwa social personality, soul beliefs, the afterlife, the MANITOS or spirits, mythology, puberty fasting and visions, disease, health, and medicine, religious practitioners. the MIDEWIWIN or great medicine society and its ceremonials, and other religious movements.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- seventeenth - twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Ojibwa: United States and Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christopher Vecsey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-228)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83072209
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians