They Knew Both Sides of Medicine: Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew 0887556493, 9780887553103
Written in original Cree text with a full English translation, They Knew both Sides of Medicine also includes an introdu
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English Pages 332 [323] Year 2000
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Preface
Case Histories of Living Practice
I: ANGLICAN PRIEST AND CREE HEALER
1 Coping with a Windigo and the Great Epidemic
2 Courtship and Marriage
3 A Tour of England
4 The Priest's Bear Medicine
II: STRANGE NEW WORLD
5 Good Times in a Hard Life
6 A Throw-away Society
7 An Ungodly Smell
8 Facing the Other
III: POWERS OF GOOD AND EVIL
9 Escaping a Windigo and Starvation
10 Seeking Refuge
11 A Dreadful Curse (First Telling)
12 A Dreadful Curse (Second Telling)
Commentary and Notes
Cree-English Glossary
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English Index to the Glossary
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Cover
Contents
Preface
Case Histories of Living Practice
I: ANGLICAN PRIEST AND CREE HEALER
1 Coping with a Windigo and the Great Epidemic
2 Courtship and Marriage
3 A Tour of England
4 The Priest's Bear Medicine
II: STRANGE NEW WORLD
5 Good Times in a Hard Life
6 A Throw-away Society
7 An Ungodly Smell
8 Facing the Other
III: POWERS OF GOOD AND EVIL
9 Escaping a Windigo and Starvation
10 Seeking Refuge
11 A Dreadful Curse (First Telling)
12 A Dreadful Curse (Second Telling)
Commentary and Notes
Cree-English Glossary
A
C
E
H
I
K
M
N
O
P
S
T
W
Y
English Index to the Glossary
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
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Publications of the Algonquian Text Society Collection de la Soiete d,edition de textes algonquienes
H.C. Wolfart, General Editor
ah-ayitaw isi e-ki-kiskeyihtahkik maskihkiy They Knew Both Sides of Medicine Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew
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