“Is Smudging a Religious Ritual?”

“Is Smudging a Religious Ritual?”

Categories: Lectures and Seminars | Intended for

Thursday, March 02, 2017

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Add to calendar

A720 Loeb Building

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Paula Whissell, 2584, paula.whissell@carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

$0

About this Event

Host Organization: Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium
Rosalyn LaPier is an award winning Indigenous writer and historian, who is an associate professor at the University of Montana. She studies the intersection of Indigenous environmental knowledge learned from elders and the academic study of history and religion of Indigenous people. Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis. She is working on her third book project, “Plants That Purify: The Natural and Supernatural History of Smudging”, as a visiting professor at the Harvard Divinity School.