"tories of the primordial woman who married a bear appear across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea. In The Woman Who Married the Bear, authors Barbara Alice Mann, a scholar of Indigenous American culture, and Kaarina Kailo, who specializes in the...

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Hauptverfasser:	Mann, Barbara Alice 1947- (VerfasserIn), Kailo, Kaarina 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Oxford University Press [2023]
Schlagworte:	Spiritualität Rolle Frau Indigenes Volk Nordamerika Eurasien Bears / Folklore Human-animal relationships / Folklore Matriarchy / Mythology Spirituality Bears Human-animal relationships Folklore
Zusammenfassung:	"tories of the primordial woman who married a bear appear across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea. In The Woman Who Married the Bear, authors Barbara Alice Mann, a scholar of Indigenous American culture, and Kaarina Kailo, who specializes in the cultures of Northern Europe, join forces to examine the Bear-Husband stories on their respective continents, their common elements, and their meanings in the context of matriarchal culture. The authors reach back 35,000 years to tease out different threads of Indigenous Woman-Bear traditions, using the lens of bear spirituality to uncover the ancient matriarchies found in rock art, caves, ceremonies, rituals, and traditions. Across cultures, in the earliest known traditions, women and bears are shown to collaborate through star configurations and winter cave-dwelling, symbolized by the spring awakening from hibernation followed by the birth of "cubs." By the Bronze Age, however, the story of the Woman-Bear marriage had changed: it had become a hunting tale, refocused on the male hunter. Throughout the book, Mann and Kailo offer interpretations of this earliest known Bear religion in both its original and its later forms. Together, they uncover the maternal cultural symbolism behind the bear marriage and the Original Instructions given by Bear to Woman on sustainable ecology and lifeways free of patriarchy and social stratification." --Publisher's description
Beschreibung:	xii, 284 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:	9780197655429