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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100754668266
ISBN-139780754668268
eBay Product ID (ePID)92380805
Product Key Features
Number of Pages212 Pages
Publication NameBlackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
SubjectGeneral, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
TypeTextbook
AuthorKenneth Hayes Lokensgard
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science
SeriesVitality of Indigenous Religions Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.5 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2010-005816
Dewey Edition22
Reviews'Kenneth Lokensgard's careful, descriptive, and informative study of Blackfoot Medicine Bundles shows how the commodification of the exchange order eroded the culture of the Blackfoot and offers the opportunity for a critical pause that allows us to raise different and alternate understandings of the nature of exchanges, intimacies, and society.' Charles H. Long, University of California, Santa Barbara USA '... the book is intellectually stimulating for it dwells on many controversial areas. The subject matter of the book that the reviewer found most interesting (the explanations of the meaning of Blackfoot bundles) is clearly analyzed. The chapters bearing directly on them will be useful to teach non-Native students a radically different form of spiritual/religious practice.' Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal978.00497352
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Blackfoot Medicine Bundles: Gifts or Commodities, 2. Gifts and Commodities: The Concepts Behind the Terms, 3. Scholarly Applications and Investigations of Commodity and Gift, 4. Blackfoot Medicine Bundles as Circulated Gifts, 5. Blackfoot Medicine Bundles as Accumulated Commodities, 6. Material Exchange, Metaphorical Markets, and Scholarly Ethics in the Study of Religion, Appendix: Informants and Collaborators, Glossary of Blackfoot Terms, Sources Consulted, Index
SynopsisThis book explores the exchange of Blackfoot "medicine bundles" within contemporary Blackfoot culture and between the Blackfoot Peoples and Euro-Americans. These ceremonial bundles, which are circulated as gifts in their native context, are robbed of their statuses as living beings or persons, when they are treated as symbolic objects or commodities by cultural outsiders. Much of the original, ethnographic data presented in this book deals with the attempts of some Blackfeet to repatriate ceremonial materials from Euro-American hands. This book represents a valuable study of contemporary Blackfoot religion as well as the repatriation movement. Kenneth Lokensgard also contributes to the studies of material culture and exchange; central to his investigation is the critical examination and reapplication of the interpretative terms "gift" and "commodity." Careful use of these terms, Lokensgard argues, can better help scholars appreciate how different peoples perceive the worlds they inhabit., This book explores the exchange of Blackfoot 'medicine bundles' within contemporary Blackfoot culture and between the Blackfoot Peoples and Euro-Americans. Representing a valuable study of contemporary Blackfoot religion as well as the repatriation movement, Lokensgard also contributes to the studies of material culture and exchange. Central to his investigation is the critical examination and reapplication of the interpretative terms 'gift' and 'commodity,' helping scholars appreciate how different peoples perceive the worlds they inhabit.
LC Classification NumberE99.S54
