The Neo-Indians. A Religion for the Third Millenium

Jacques Galinier (1) , Antoinette Molinié (1)

1 LESC - Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative

The Neo-Indians is a rich ethnographic study of the emergence of the neo-Indian movement—a new form of Indian identity based on largely reinvented pre-colonial cultures and comprising a diverse group of people attempting to re-create purified pre-colonial indigenous beliefs and ritual practices without the contaminating influences of modern society. There is no full-time neo-Indian. Both indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners assume Indian identities only when deemed spiritually significant. In their daily lives, they are average members of modern society, dressing in Western clothing, working at middle-class jobs, and retaining their traditional religious identities. As a result of this part-time status the neo-Indians are often overlooked as a subject of study, making this book the first anthropological analysis of the movement.

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Anthropologie biologique; Sociologie

Jacques Galinier, Antoinette Molinié. The Neo-Indians. A Religion for the Third Millenium. University Press of Colorado, 2013, 978-1607322733. ⟨hal-01632027⟩