At a young age, Diana Jackman learned from her great uncle, a Micmac shaman, how to sense a world invisible to most people. Now years later--searching for her l

The aim of this incisive study is to clarify the symbolism of the so-called 'sin' (hatta't) offering, better understood as a purification offering. A major conc

This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to ch