Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History by Smallman, Shawn

Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History

In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person...
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Author: Shawn Smallman
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Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History by Smallman, Shawn

Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History

€28,33

Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History

€28,33
Author: Shawn Smallman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America--from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the westmdash;believed in the windigo, not only as a myth told in the darkness of winter, but also as a real danger.

Drawing on oral narratives, fur traders' journals, trial records, missionary accounts, and anthropologists' field notes, this book is a revealing glimpse into indigenous beliefs, cross-cultural communication, and embryonic colonial relationships. It also ponders the recent resurgence of the windigo in popular culture and its changing meaning in a modern context.


Author: Shawn Smallman
Publisher: Heritage House
Published: 04/23/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781772030327

About the Author
Shawn Smallman is a professor of International Studies at Portland State University. He received his PhD in history from Yale University and is the author of three critically acclaimed academic books, Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America, and (with Kim Brown) An Introduction to International and Global Studies.

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