Sounds of Tohi - Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia

About the author

Lisa J. Lefler is director of the Culturally-Based Native Health Program at Western Carolina University and also founder and former executive director of the Center for Native Health. She is editor of Anthropology: Weaving Our Discipline with Community, Under the Rattlesnake: Cherokee Health and Resiliency, and Southern Foodways and Culture: Local Considerations and Beyond and coeditor of Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity.

Thomas N. Belt is a retired coordinator of Western Carolina University's program in Cherokee language and recipient of an honorary doctorate degree from Western Carolina University and a national honor for service from the Cherokee Nation. He is cofounder of the annual Rooted in the Mountains Symposium.

Summary

Presents a dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues. Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia is the result of almost two decades of work by medical anthropologist Lisa Lefler and Cherokee elder and traditionalist Thomas Belt.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas N Belt, Thomas N. Belt, Pamela Duncan, Tom Hatley, T. J. Holland, Lisa J Lefler, Lisa J. Lefler
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9780817321192
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2119-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Series: Contemporary American Indian S; Contemporary American Indian Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore