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When Stones Come to Life.(Ojibwa people, and others, who practice animism)
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June 5, 1999|
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Researchers ponder the curious human tendency to view all sorts of things as alive
While conducting fieldwork in eastern Canada more than 60 years ago among a hunting and trapping group called the Ojibwa, an anthropologist asked an old man if all the stones strewn about the landscape were alive. "He reflected a long while," the questioner reported, "and then replied, `No, but some are.'"
"This qualified answer made a lasting impression on me," the late A. Irving Hallowell recounted in a 1960 essay on Ojibwa beliefs.
The Ojibwa people, Hallowell ...
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