Honoring elders : aging, authority, and Ojibwe religion

Summary: Using archival and ethnographic research, Michael D. McNally follows the making of Ojibwe eldership, showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral, aesthetic, and cosmological vision connected to the ongoing circle of life and tradition of authority that has been crucial to surviving colonization.

Record details

ISBN: 0231518250 (e)
ISBN: 9780231518253 (e)
ISBN: 0231145039 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780231145039 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0231145020 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780231145022 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xxi, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-364) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Aging and the life cycle imagined in Ojibwe tradition and lived in history -- Eldership, respect, and the sacred community -- Elders as grandparents and teachers -- Elders articulating tradition -- The sacralization of eldership -- The shape of wisdom.