This book explores the exchange of Blackfoot "medicine bundles" within contemporary Blackfoot culture and between the Blackfoot Peoples and Euro-Americans. These ceremonial bundles; which are circulated as gifts in their native context; are robbed of their statuses as living beings or persons; when they are treated as symbolic objects or commodities by cultural outsiders. Much of the original; ethnographic data presented in this book deals with the attempts of some Blackfeet to repatriate ceremonial materials from Euro-American hands. This book represents a valuable study of contemporary Blackfoot religion as well as the repatriation movement. Kenneth Lokensgard also contributes to the studies of material culture and exchange; central to his investigation is the critical examination and reapplication of the interpretative terms "gift" and "commodity." Careful use of these terms; Lokensgard argues; can better help scholars appreciate how different peoples perceive the worlds they inhabit.
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