Native Foodways

Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods

240 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.Native Foodways is the first scholarly collection of essays devoted exclusively to the interplay of Indigenous religious traditions and foodways in North America. Drawing on diverse methodologies, the essays discuss significant confluences in selected examples of these religious traditions and foodways, providing rich individual case studies informed by relevant historical, ethnographic, and comparative data. Many of the essays demonstrate how narrative and active elements of selected Indigenous North American religious traditions have provided templates for interactive relationships with particular animals and plants, rooted in detailed information about their local environments. In return, these animals and plants have provided these Native American communities with sustenance. Other essays provide analyses of additional contemporary and historical North American Indigenous foodways while also addressing issues of tradition and cultural change. Scholars and other readers interested in ecology, climate change, world hunger, colonization, religious studies, and cultural studies will find this book to be a valuable resource.

• Reihe: SUNY series, Native Traces
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Ethnic Studies / Ethnizität
• ISBN: 9781438482613
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2021
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: SUNY Press
• Herausgegeben von: Michelene E. Pesantubbee, Michael J. Zogry