Different Medicine - Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church

Zusatztext In summary this book is an excellent addition to the existing literature on the Native American Church, especially because it tries to acknowledge and circumvent existing cultural prejudices, in order to engender an analysis rooted in mutual respect. This is not only important for the use of a powerful psychedelic substance, but also to bring to light the negative impact of colonialism and to envision a world in which the pain that is still alive among Native Americans can be healed and overcome. Informationen zum Autor Lecturer in medical anthropology, University College London Klappentext Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC). Zusammenfassung Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC). Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface: Hard to Swallow: The Challenge of Radical Cultural Differences PART 1. Anthropological and Clinical Orientations I Introduction: Peyote, Cultural Paradigm Clash, and the Multiplicity of the Normal II Expanding Our Conceptualization of the Therapeutic: Toward a Suitable Theoretical Framework for the Study of Cultural Psychiatries III Clinical Ethnography: Clinically-Informed Self-Reflective Immersion in Local Worlds of Suffering, Healing and Wellbeing PART 2. Cultural and Personal Healing in the Native American Church IV The Unfolding Cultural Paradigm Clash: Ritual Peyote Use and the Struggle for Postcolonial Healing in North America V Medicine and Spirit: The Dual Nature of Peyote VI The Peyote Ceremony: Psychopharmacology, Ritual Process, and Experiences of Healing VII Kinship, Socialization, and Ritual in Navajo Peyotist Families VIII Postcolonial Hybridity and Ritual Bureaucracy in New Mexico: Participant Observation in a Navajo Peyotist Healer's Clinical Program IX Decolonizing Our Understandings of the Normal and the Therapeutic References ...

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• Authors: Joseph Calabrese, Joseph D Calabrese, Joseph D. Calabrese, Joseph D. (Lecturer in Medical Anthropo Calabrese, Joseph D. (Lecturer in Medical Anthropology Calabrese, Calabrese Joseph D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2013
• EAN: 9780199927845
• ISBN: 978-0-19-992784-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series; Oxford Ritual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, North America, RELIGION / Ancient, RELIGION / Devotional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, North America (USA and Canada), Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Ancient religions & mythologies, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Ancient religions and Mythologies