{"product_id":"living-with-animals-9781442614796","title":"Living with Animals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin nineteenth-century Ojibwe\/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. \u003cem\u003eLiving with Animals\u003c\/em\u003e presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, healers, and protectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Pomedli shows that the principles at play in these sources are not merely evidence of cultural values, but also unique standards brought to treaty signings by Ojibwe leaders. In addition, these principles are norms against which North American treaty interpretations should be reframed. The author provides an important foundation for ongoing treaty negotiations, and for what contemporary Ojibwe cultural figures corroborate as ways of leading a good, integrated life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This engaging and engrossing study focuses on the cultural forms of Native expression in 19th-century Ojibwe medicine societies and communities... Living with Animals offers an impressive amount of meticulous data-including traditional narratives, scrolls, textiles, and petroglyphs.' -- A.R. McKee Choice vol 52:02:2014 'An impressive piece of scholarship and it breaks new ground regarding the Midewiwin or Grand Medicine Society... Living with Animals is a welcome resource for students and scholars and I also highly recommend to general readers who have an interest in native spirituality.' -- Lawrence T. Martin Prairie Messenger July 2, 2014 'This book makes a unique contribution to the literature on Ojibwe culture by emphasizing the place of animal and spiritual beings in nineteenth-century Ojibwe ontology, behavior and world view.' -- Darrel Manitowabi The Canadian Journal of Native Studies vol 34:02:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    * Challenging Western thought * The power of bear grease * Bears as persons * Transformative possibilities make definitive judgments difficult   Introduction    * Scope of this book * Geography of the Ojibwe * Goals and methodology * Use of terms; spellings, illustrations * Acknowledgements * Genesis of this book * Permissions   Chapter One: The Grand Medicine Society, the Midewiwin    * Membership * Wabeno, Jessakkid, and Midewiwin * Origins of the Midewiwin * Cosmic ordering * Nanabush * Health and the Midewiwin * Functions of the Midewiwin * Sound of the drum * Medicine bags * Birch bark scrolls, the lodge, teachings, ceremonies * Midewiwin and rock art * Bear, the \"guiding spirit of the Midewiwin\" * Megis\/shell * Midewiwin and leadership   Chapter Two: \"Paths of the Spirit\": Moral Values in the Writings of Four 19th-Century Ojibwe in the Spirit of the Midewiwin    * Peter Jones: Like the \"red squirrel\" who stores nuts, store works of the Great Spirit * Andrew J. Blackbird: \"The Great Spirit is looking upon thee continually\" * George Copway: \"I am one of Nature's children.\" * William Whipple Warren: \"There is much yet to be learned from the wild and apparently simple son of the forest\"   Chapter Three: Otter: the Playful Slider    * Physical otter * Otter as representational * Otter as patterned * Otter and Ojibwe standards of life   Chapter Four: Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwe and Midewiwin World    * Classification and characteristics of owls * Owl as bad luck, bad medicine * Owl as protector and healer * Owl as a teacher of altruism * Owl and directions, winds and seasons * Owl and the dead * Owl and conservation * Owl and origin of day and night * Representations of owl   Chapter Five: Omnipresent and Ambivalent Bears    * Bears' anatomy, physiology, and behavior * Ojibwe relationships with bears * Representations of bear in ceremonial performances * Near identity of bears and Ojibwe * Bear in the Midewiwin ceremonies * Totems\/dodems, clans * Evil bears * Bear as archshadow * Bear as celestial * Bears and visions of sound * Bear as medicine and healer: following the bear path * Bear as patterned * Bear as child abductor * Bear as environmental guardian, mother * Games * Bear and greed   Chapter Six: Water Creatures    * Harmful creatures * Snakes and the afterlife * Helpful creatures * Women, water and snakes * Sea creatures and copper * Sea creatures and silver * The Little People   Chapter Seven: Thunderbirds    * Thunderbirds as givers * Interrelationships among humans, sky and water creatures * Birds and play * Thunderbirds and Ojibwe life * Thunderers as communicators and protectors * Thunderbird symbolism   Conclusion   Appendix A  Leadership among Ojibwe  Appendix B  The sweat lodge  Appendix C  Bear as celestial  Appendix D  Ojibwe historical relationship with copper  Appendix E  Lacrosse and war  Notes  Bibliography   Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187497361751,"sku":"9781442614796","price":30.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/living-with-animals-9781442614796","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}