Honoring Elders: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion

Michael D. McNally

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments



Introduction

1. Aging and the Life Cycle Imagined in Ojibwe Tradition and Lived in History

2. Eldership, Respect, and the Sacred Community

3. Elders as Grandparents and Teachers

4. Elders Articulating Tradition

5. The Sacralization of Eldership

6. The Shape of Wisdom



Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• American Religion
• American Studies

Series

• Religion and American Culture

About the Author

Michael D. McNally is associate professor of religion at Carleton College. He is the author of Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion and Art of Tradition: Sacred Music, Dance, and Myth of Michigan's Anishinaabe 1946-1955.

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