A Wendigo is a half-beast creature appearing in the legends of the Algonquian peoples along the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada. The wendigo is a “cannibal monster who roams the northern forest, preying on unsuspecting passers-by” (Waldram 2004:181). In Cree and Anishinaabek narrative traditions Windigo may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them to go windigo, to become monstrous.
In this assignement I want to explain my opinion that Wendigo is not a term describing some sort of Aborinigal-antifreeze-drinking zombi's evil twin with more insatiable hunger but equivalently brainless, but an idea of ever evolving cunning …show more content…
Worse, it can change the children of these children into Wendigos.” (Bartleman 2011:62)
Besides of earlier historical references wendigo-psychosis is defined in the short article published in 1933 as a “delusion of transformation” into windigo spreaded among Aborignal population.
Waldram examines culture bound syndromes as windigo psychosis (...) as the tenacity to cling to ill-conceived construct it as truth: [But] no actual cases of windigo psychosis have ever been studied,…[windigo psychosis] continues to seek revenge for this attempted scholarly execution by periodically duping unsuspecting p assers-by, like psychiatrists, into believing that windigo psychosis exists… Windigo psychosis may well be the most perfect example of the construction of an Aboriginal mental disorder by the s cholarly professions, and its persistence dramatically underscores how constructions of the Aboriginal by the professions have, like Frankenstein’s monster, taken on a life of their own (p. 181).
The windigo in contemporary Indigenous literature has experienced renewed attention since Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road in
In this assignement I want to explain my opinion that Wendigo is not a term describing some sort of Aborinigal-antifreeze-drinking zombi's evil twin with more insatiable hunger but equivalently brainless, but an idea of ever evolving cunning …show more content…
Worse, it can change the children of these children into Wendigos.” (Bartleman 2011:62)
Besides of earlier historical references wendigo-psychosis is defined in the short article published in 1933 as a “delusion of transformation” into windigo spreaded among Aborignal population.
Waldram examines culture bound syndromes as windigo psychosis (...) as the tenacity to cling to ill-conceived construct it as truth: [But] no actual cases of windigo psychosis have ever been studied,…[windigo psychosis] continues to seek revenge for this attempted scholarly execution by periodically duping unsuspecting p assers-by, like psychiatrists, into believing that windigo psychosis exists… Windigo psychosis may well be the most perfect example of the construction of an Aboriginal mental disorder by the s cholarly professions, and its persistence dramatically underscores how constructions of the Aboriginal by the professions have, like Frankenstein’s monster, taken on a life of their own (p. 181).
The windigo in contemporary Indigenous literature has experienced renewed attention since Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road in