Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Foreword: Reincarnation Eschatologies and the Comparative Study of Religions

1 Introduction

2 Reincarnation Belief among North American Indians and Inuit: Context, Distribution, and Variation

3 Saving the Souls: Reincarnation Beliefs of the Seventeenth-Century Huron

4 The Reincarnations of Thunder Cloud, A Winnebago Indian

5 Behind Inupiaq Reincarnation: Cosmological Cycling

6 From Foetus to Shaman: The Construction of an Inuit Third Sex

7 Born-Again Pagans: The Inuit Cycle of Spirits

8 The Name Never Dies: Greenland Inuit Ideas of the Person

9 Kutchin Concepts of Reincarnation

10 Reincarnation as a Fact of Life among Contemporary Dene Tha

11 The Concept of the Person and Reincarnation among the Kwakiutl Indians

12 Person, Time, and Being: Northwest Coast Rebirth in Comparative Perspective

13 Rebirth and Identity: Three Gitksan Cases of Pierced-Ear Birthmarks

14 Cultural Patterns in Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation among the Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska

15 Alternate-Generation Equivalence and the Recycling of Souls: Amerindian Rebirth in Global Perspective

16 The Study of Reincarnation in Indigenous American Cultures: Some Comments

Appendix. A Trait Index to North American Indian and Inuit Reincarnation Sources

References

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Contributors