The Wihkohtowin: Ritual Feasting among Cree and Métis Peoples in Northern Alberta

Auteurs-es

  • Clinton N. Westman University of Saskatchewan

Mots-clés :

Cree, Alberta, wihkoktowin, ritual, shamanism

Résumé

I provide new data and interpretations on the wihkohtowin, a key ritual feast of Cree and Métis peoples in northern Alberta. I draw on my own interviews and ethnographic research, archived interviews, other archival data and published accounts of the wihkohtowin. As a historically important shamanic ritual practised in the contemporary context, the wihkohtowin is relevant to relations with animals and non-human nature, including spirits and the dead, as well as relations within human society. Taking an approach adapted from Don Handelman and my informants, I suggest that the wihkohtowin merits deeper analysis in its own right: historically, linguistically, phenomenologically and emotionally.

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Publié-e

2015-04-30

Comment citer

Westman, C. N. (2015). The Wihkohtowin: Ritual Feasting among Cree and Métis Peoples in Northern Alberta. Anthropologica, 57(2), 299–314. Consulté à l’adresse https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/399