Finding Kluskap - A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth

About the author

Jennifer Reid is Professor of Religion at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Summary

Studies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to Saint Anne. Suggests that Kluskap, the treaties, and the mission are intertwined in a way that expresses a unique critique of modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Reid, Jennifer (University of Maine Reid, Reid Jennifer
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2013
• EAN: 9780271060682
• ISBN: 978-0-271-06068-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: Karten
• Series: Signifying on Scriptures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Canada / General, History of the Americas, Tribal religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal