Amerindian Rebirth – Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inui…
Amerindian RebirthReincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit\nAuthor(s): Antonia Mills, Richard Slobodin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802077035, 978-0802077035\nSynopsis\nUntil now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day.\n\n Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeenth-century Hurons
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