Description: The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Indian-European Encounters in Early North America Author(s): Erik R. Seeman Format: Hardback Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 9780801898549, 978-0801898549 Synopsis "Two thousand Wendat (Huron) Indians stood on the edge of an enormous burial pit...they held in their arms the bones of roughly seven hundred deceased friends and family members. The Wendats had lovingly scraped and cleaned the bones of the corpses that had decomposed on the scaffolds. They awaited only the signal from the master of the ritual to place the bones in the pit. This was the great Feast of the Dead." Witnesses to these Wendat burial rituals were European colonists, French Jesuit missionaries in particular. Rather than being horrified by these unfamiliar native practices, Europeans recognized the parallels between them and their own understanding of death and human remains. Both groups believed that deceased souls traveled to the afterlife; both believed that elaborate mortuary rituals ensured the safe transit of the soul to the supernatural realm; and both believed in the power of human bones. Appreciating each other's funerary practices allowed the Wendats and French colonists to find common ground where there seemingly would be none. Erik R. Seeman analyzes these encounters, using the Feast of the Dead as a metaphor for broader Indian-European relations in North America. His compelling narrative gives undergraduate students of early America and the Atlantic World a revealing glimpse into this fascinating-and surprising-meeting of cultures.
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Book Title: The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Name: The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 363 g
Subject Area: Regional History
Author: Erik R. Seeman
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Witness to History
Format: Hardcover
