Coming Full Circle
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9524-7 (ISBN)
Coming Full Circle is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between spirituality and health among Coast Salish and Chinook communities in western Washington from 1805 to 2005. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien examines how these communities define what it means to be healthy and how recent tribal community–based health programs have applied this understanding to their missions and activities. She also explores how contemporary definitions, goals, and activities relating to health and healing are informed by Coast Salish history and also by indigenous spiritual views of the body. These views, she argues, are based on an understanding of the relationship between self, ecology, and community.
Coming Full Circle draws on a historical framework in reflecting on contemporary tribal health-care efforts and the ways in which they engage indigenous healing traditions alongside twenty-first-century biomedicine. The book makes a strong case for the current shift toward tribally controlled care, arguing that local, culturally distinct ways of healing and understanding illness must be a part of Native health care.
Combining in-depth archival research, extensive ethnographic participant-based field work, and skillful scholarship on theories of religion and embodiment, Crawford O’Brien offers an original and masterful analysis of Coast Salish and Chinook traditions and worldviews, and the intersection of religion and healing.
Suzanne Crawford O’Brien is a professor of religion and culture at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the author of Native American Religions and the editor of Religion and Healing in Native America: Pathways for Renewal.
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Case of Ellen GrayPart One: Locations1. Theoretical Orientation: Embodied Subjectivity and the Self in MotionPart Two: Illness, Healing, and Missionization in Historical Context2. “The Fact Is They Cannot Live”: Euroamerican Responses to Epidemic Disease3. “Civilization Is Poison to the Indian”: Missionization, Authenticity, and the Myth of the Vanishing IndianPart Three: Restoring the Spirit, Renewing Tradition4. “A Good Christian Is a Good Medicine Man”: Changing Religious Landscapes from 1804 to 20055. Both Traditional and Contemporary: The South Puget Intertribal Women’s Wellness Program6. Coming Full Circle: Defining Health and Wellness on the Shoalwater Bay Indian ReservationPart Four: Person, Body, Place7. “Rich in Relations”: Self, Kin, and Community8. The Healthy Self: Embedded in Place9. “A Power Makes You Sick”: Illness and Healing in Coast Salish and Chinook TraditionsConclusion: The Case of Ellen Gray, Reconsidered
NotesBibliographyIndex
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.11.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 14 photographs, 4 illustrations |
Verlagsort | Lincoln |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8032-9524-3 / 0803295243 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-9524-7 / 9780803295247 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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