The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons

by Waldram, James Waldram, James, James Waldram, James B. Waldram

Book Overview

Prisons are an ominous fact of life for too many Aboriginal people. The Way of the Pipe explores how Aboriginal spirituality is finding its way into prisons and the role it is playing with Aboriginal inmates seeking to regain and to promote their heritages and identities.The book starts from the premise that this spirituality is not simply "religion" but is a form of therapy, know to medical anthropologists as "symbolic healing." Working...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551111594
• ISBN13: 9781551111599
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"