Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. Foreword: Reincarnation Eschatologies and the Comparative Study of Religions xi
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. Reincarnation Belief among North American Indians and Inuit: Context, Distribution, and Variation 15
8. 3. Saving the Souls: Reincarnation Beliefs of the Seventeenth-Century Huron 38
9. 4. The Reincarnations of Thunder Cloud, A Winnebago Indian 55
10. 5. Behind Inupiaq Reincarnation: Cosmological Cycling 67
11. 6. From Foetus to Shaman: The Construction of an Inuit Third Sex 82
12. 7. Born-Again Pagans: The Inuit Cycle of Spirits 107
13. 8. The Name Never Dies: Greenland Inuit Ideas of the Person 123
14. 9. Kutchin Concepts of Reincarnation 136
15. 10. Reincarnation as a Fact of Life among Contemporary Dene Tha 156
16. 11. The Concept of the Person and Reincarnation among the Kwakiutl Indians 177
17. 12. Person, Time, and Being: Northwest Coast Rebirth in Comparative Perspective 192
18. 13. Rebirth and Identity: Three Gitksan Cases of Pierced-Ear Birthmarks 211
19. 14. Cultural Patterns in Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation among the Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska 242
20. 15. Alternate-Generation Equivalence and the Recycling of Souls: Amerindian Rebirth in Global Perspective 263
21. 16. The Study of Reincarnation in Indigenous American Cultures: Some Comments 284
22. Appendix.A Trait Index to North American Indian and Inuit Reincarnation 299
23. References 357
24. Culture Index 391
25. General Index 395
26. Contributors 409