RELS 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reel Injun, Vision Quest, Eurocentrism
1 Feb 2017
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Refers to different ways of being in the world. A way of orienting yourself in the world. There are different ways of orienting ourselves in the world. The fourfold embodiments is a way of interpreting/making sense of the. The fourfold embodiments somatic, social, ecological, and cosmological overlap and thus ought to be framed in holistic terms that call attention to the balance and harmony of indigenous lifeways. lifeway. Body and spiritual aspects are two sides of the same coins. When we make of the fourfold embodiments, have to be contextualized to the bio-regions. The lifeway of personhood can be maintained and reconstructed by a vision. Quest, a spirituality transforming experience that introduces new ways of self-perception as an altered vision of the world of space and time. Spiritual and visionary experiences do not stand in isolation, but are a means of social reflection and transformation that are undertaken for benefit of society.
