Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America

by Barbara Alice Mann

Book Overview

Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199997195
• ISBN13: 9780199997190
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"