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Making a Garden out of the Wilderness

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Author

Editor

  • Laura Feldt

Summary, in English

By using examples of European meetings with indigenous Mi‟kmaq in the Atlantic provinces of Canada in the early 17th century, I will show how the concept of wilderness was employed as a key metaphor for establishing the moral right and duty of Europeans to colonize the land, reorganizing the nomadic hunters in settled communities and remaking the mobile nature of the “savage” in the image of a cultivated plant.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

205-228

Publication/Series

Wilderness in Mythology and Religion: Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature

Volume

Religion and Society Seeries vol. 55

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

De Gruyter

Topic

  • History of Religions

Keywords

  • Wilderness
  • Mission
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Ecology
  • Mi’kmaq
  • Canada

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 13: 978-1614512240