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Shared experience and magical death: Chipewyan explanations of a prophet's decline
Ethnology • 25 • Published In 1986 • Pages: 257-270
By: Sharp, Henry S..
Abstract
This source examines the pan-Chipewyan system of supernatural knowledge, power, and thought encompassed by the concept of INKOZE; a system, in the minds of the Chipewyan, closely allied to insanity. Here, the analysis of INKOZE is extended to a prophet figure known as Magic Boy, the supposed reincarnation of the mythical being Lived-with-the-wolves. This individual was active in the northern parts of several Canadian provinces toward the end of the 1960s. A major portion of this paper discusses various Chipewyan explanations for his decline and subsequent loss of INKOZE in the early 1970s (e.g., alcoholism, ghostly vengeance and misfortune in previous reincarnations, and a medicine fight between the prophet and a local man who claimed him to be a fraud).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1989-1991
- Field Date
- 1970-1973
- Coverage Date
- 1969-1970
- Coverage Place
- Black Lake, northwestern Saskatchewan, Canada
- Notes
- [by] Henry Stephen Sharp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 270)
- LCCN
- 64005713
- LCSH
- Chipewyan Indians