1st Edition
Mi'kmaq Landscapes From Animism to Sacred Ecology
Mi'kmaq Landscapes
Biography
Anne-Christine Hornborg is Professor in History of Religions in the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University, Sweden. She has also previously lectured at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Human Ecology Division and the Department of Social Anthropology, Lund University. She has undertaken fieldwork, conducted 1992-1993, 1996 and 2000 on the reservations of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and Canada, during 1998 and 2001 in Tonga, and during 2004 in Peru. Anne-Christine Hornborg has written several international, published articles concerning indigenous worldviews, rituals and embodiment, the phenomenology of landscape, the anthropologist in field, and ecology and religion. Currently she is developing the new interdisciplinary field "Ritual Studies". In this field of research, she will examine rituals as lived experience, new rituals in late modernity, ritual and practice theory, and the importance of cross-disciplinary studies in developing theories of ritual and of ritual practices.
'Anne-Christine Hornborg provides valuable insights into changing spiritual and land-based practices of Mi'kmaq in Canada (principally Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island) since the seventeenth century, focusing on the twentieth century while also considering prospects and limitations for knowledge of pre-contact and early contact Mi'kmaq traditions.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
