CULTURAL studies, CROSS-cultural communication, CROSS-cultural studies
Abstract
Discusses how the understanding of one culture can be expressed in such a way as to be meaningful to persons of another culture. Information on the inductive method of teaching a language; Details on the relationship between Euroamerican and Native cultures.
GODS, RELIGION & culture, NATIVE American religion, SUPERNATURAL beings, IDEOLOGY
Abstract
Analyzes the means by which high god concepts developed in native U.S. citizen religions following contact with and eventual domination by European culture. Reason for the Algonkin religion being propounded as a model for precontact religion; Comparison between the lack of a high-god concept among the Odawa with Algonkin cultures to the south; Information on the ideological changes in Algonkin cultures that contributed to the development of the concept of manito.