Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côte
Nowadays, many indigenous people living in the Vancouver area, on Central Coast Salish territories, can claim to have a special relationship with a supernatural entity, often a non-human animal species, a vegetal species, or an element of the landscape. The purpose of this article is to highlight th...
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| description | Nowadays, many indigenous people living in the Vancouver area, on Central Coast Salish territories, can claim to have a special relationship with a supernatural entity, often a non-human animal species, a vegetal species, or an element of the landscape. The purpose of this article is to highlight the different modalities of this identification with a protective non-human being, and it takes as its starting point hesitations, difficulties, and inaccuracies that occur when one tries to define such identification. By doing so, we outline a real « totemic complex », i.e. a floating structure allowing several possible relationships with a non-human. This paper therefore proposes to reconsider the question of totemism among the Coast Salish people, and to show how it can be deepened if totemism is apprehended as a relational and flexible « complex », involving several possible relational and consistent combinations with a supernatural being. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d28cf50346144dbf85dfa69948d31c242022-12-22T04:07:46ZengSociété des américanistesJournal de la Société des Américanistes0037-91741957-78422015-12-01101110513610.4000/jsa.14319Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côteBaptiste GilleNowadays, many indigenous people living in the Vancouver area, on Central Coast Salish territories, can claim to have a special relationship with a supernatural entity, often a non-human animal species, a vegetal species, or an element of the landscape. The purpose of this article is to highlight the different modalities of this identification with a protective non-human being, and it takes as its starting point hesitations, difficulties, and inaccuracies that occur when one tries to define such identification. By doing so, we outline a real « totemic complex », i.e. a floating structure allowing several possible relationships with a non-human. This paper therefore proposes to reconsider the question of totemism among the Coast Salish people, and to show how it can be deepened if totemism is apprehended as a relational and flexible « complex », involving several possible relational and consistent combinations with a supernatural being.http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/14319Coast SalishTotemismguardian spiritidentificationuncertainty. |
| spellingShingle | Baptiste Gille Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côte Journal de la Société des Américanistes Coast Salish Totemism guardian spirit identification uncertainty. |
| title | Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côte |
| title_full | Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côte |
| title_fullStr | Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côte |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côte |
| title_short | Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côte |
| title_sort | identifications totemiques reflexions sur la relation entre humains et entites surnaturelles chez les salish centraux de la cote |
| topic | Coast Salish Totemism guardian spirit identification uncertainty. |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/14319 |
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