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8 juin 2021
- handle: 10670/1.8g9l9f
- isbn: 9781800640351
- eisbn: 9791036570339
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Olivia Bloechl, « 1. Listening as an Innu-French Contact Zone in the Jesuit Relations », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.8g9l9f
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In his field report of 1636, the French missionary Paul Le Jeune described an Innu (Montagnais) shaking tent ceremony that went differently than expected. According to Le Jeune, an unnamed female kakushapatak (ritual specialist, or shaman) led the ceremony after a male shaman failed to call the powerful beings who were supposed to enter the tent. Her singing worked, but the being she consulted — a powerful manitou, according to Le Jeune — ended up saying more than the priest wanted to hear. A...