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Tradition, Performance, and Religion in Native America: Ancestral Ways, Modern Selves
Dennis Kelley
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In contemporary Indian Country, many of the people who identify as American Indian fall into the urban Indian category: away from traditional lands and communities, in cities and towns wherein the opportunities to live one's identity as Native can be restricted, and even more so for American Indian religious practice and activity. Tradition, Performance, and Religion in Native America: Ancestral Ways, Modern Selves explores a possible theoretical model for discussing the religious nature of urbanized Indians. It uses aspects of contemporary pantribal practices such as the inter-tribal pow wow, substance abuse ... Read more
In contemporary Indian Country, many of the people who identify as American Indian fall into the urban Indian category: away from traditional lands and communities, in cities and towns wherein the opportunities to live one's identity as Native can be restricted, and even more so for American Indian religious practice and activity. Tradition, Performance, and Religion in Native America: Ancestral Ways, Modern Selves explores a possible theoretical model for discussing the religious nature of urbanized Indians. It uses aspects of contemporary pantribal practices such as the inter-tribal pow wow, substance abuse ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
122
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415823623
SKU
V9780415823623
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About Dennis Kelley
Dennis Kelley was awarded his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in September of 2007. His work primarily interrogates concepts of religious identity, especially as it affects and is affected by ritual practice and sacred narratives. This work is explored through the lens of American Indian religious history, with an emphasis on contemporary Native communities. He lives in ... Read more
Reviews for Tradition, Performance, and Religion in Native America: Ancestral Ways, Modern Selves
This erudite study is a cultural bridge of sophisticated analysis in demonstrating how modern Indians invent new traditions to connect their identities to the past for spiritual balance. Surprisingly this is not new, for Indians have acculturated to live according to nature's cycles and the circle of life, and Dennis Kelley brilliantly shows how this was done in the twentieth ... Read more