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With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar,...
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Publisher description: This book provides an in-depth look into a belief system which very little has been written and offers a deeper understanding of the profound spiritual life of the First Nation people. Here is a rich tapestry of stories about death, dying and returning to this life from tribes across the U.S. and Canada. Readers will learn about the Cherokee's Orpheus myth, the Hopi story of "A Journey to the Skeleton House," and the Inuit legend...
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