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- Title
The Wihkohtowin: Ritual Feasting among Cree and Métis Peoples in Northern Alberta.
- Authors
Westman, Clinton N.
- Abstract
I provide new data and interpretations on the wihkohtowin, a key ritual feast of Cree and Metis peoples in northern Alberta. I draw on my own interviews and ethnographic research, archived interviews, other archival data and published accounts of the wihkohtowin. As a historically important shamanic ritual practised in the contemporary context, the wihkohtowin is relevant to relations with animals and non-human nature, including spirits and the dead, as well as relations within human society. Taking an approach adapted from Don Handelman and my informants, I suggest that the wihkohtowin merits deeper analysis in its own right: historically, linguistically, phenomenologically and emotionally.
- Subjects
NORTHERN Alberta; CREE (North American people); METIS; SHAMANISM; HUMAN-animal relationships; BEAVER, Mike; ANTHROPOLOGY; RITES &; ceremonies; NATIVE American rites &; ceremonies; RELIGION
- Publication
Anthropologica, 2015, Vol 57, Issue 2, p299
- ISSN
0003-5459
- Publication type
Article