加拿大土著民族的汗屋仪式

汗屋仪式是美洲印第安人满足精神需求、治疗身心疾病与传承民族文化的重要方式。19世纪至20世纪上半叶,由于殖民统治与同化教育,印第安人所有的传统宗教仪式均被禁止。随着全球化背景下土著民族文化复兴运动的蓬勃发展,汗屋仪式逐渐在美洲流行开来。本文通过在加拿大的城市与农村参与汗屋仪式的亲身经历,结合相关的文献与访谈资料,描述与分析该仪式的内容及社会文化内涵,探索处于社会边缘的土著民族如何通过传统信仰仪式的实践传承民族文化,加强民族认同。

The Native Canadian Sweat Lodge Ceremony

The sweat lodge ceremony is important for the American Indians to satisfy the spiritual needs, heal the mental and physical sick, and inherit the ethnic culture. All the Indian traditional religious ceremonies were prohibited from nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century for the colonial rule and assimilation education. With the great revival of the native ethnic culture within the context of the globalization, the sweat lodge ceremony began to become popular. This paper describes and a...