Review of Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit edited by Antonia Mills and Richard Slobodin
Amerindian Rebirth is both a major collection of essays and probably the best current reference work on Native North American beliefs about reincarnation. Of its sixteen articles, four are previously published; two of them (Slobodin's and Ian Stevenson's), however, include authors' af...
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ftunivnebraskali:oai:digitalcommons.unl.edu:greatplainsresearch-1308 2023-11-12T04:12:48+01:00 Review of Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit edited by Antonia Mills and Richard Slobodin Brown, Jennifer S. H. 1996-10-01T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch/305 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsresearch/article/1308/viewcontent/11__Amerindian_Rebirth__Reincarnation_Belief_Among_North_American_Indians_and_Inuit.pdf unknown DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch/305 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsresearch/article/1308/viewcontent/11__Amerindian_Rebirth__Reincarnation_Belief_Among_North_American_Indians_and_Inuit.pdf Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences Other International and Area Studies text 1996 ftunivnebraskali 2023-10-30T10:28:35Z Amerindian Rebirth is both a major collection of essays and probably the best current reference work on Native North American beliefs about reincarnation. Of its sixteen articles, four are previously published; two of them (Slobodin's and Ian Stevenson's), however, include authors' afterthoughts updating their ideas on their research. A substantive foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere, moreover, provides perspectives on reincarnation from the study of Indic religions. The book includes an appendix offering a trait index to North American Indian and Inuit reincarnation sources, compiled in a twenty-one page chart. Since the essays themselves focus mainly on the arctic, western subarctic, and Pacific Northwest, the appendix is a valuable tool for amplifying comparative perspectives. Text Arctic inuit Subarctic University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL Arctic Pacific Indian |
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Amerindian Rebirth is both a major collection of essays and probably the best current reference work on Native North American beliefs about reincarnation. Of its sixteen articles, four are previously published; two of them (Slobodin's and Ian Stevenson's), however, include authors' afterthoughts updating their ideas on their research. A substantive foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere, moreover, provides perspectives on reincarnation from the study of Indic religions. The book includes an appendix offering a trait index to North American Indian and Inuit reincarnation sources, compiled in a twenty-one page chart. Since the essays themselves focus mainly on the arctic, western subarctic, and Pacific Northwest, the appendix is a valuable tool for amplifying comparative perspectives. |
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