Different Medicine - Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church

Zusatztext A welcome addition to the literature ... Recommended. 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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• Autori: Joseph Calabrese, Joseph D. Calabrese, Joseph D. (Lecturer in Medical Anthropo Calabrese, Calabrese Joseph D.
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199927722
• ISBN: 978-0-19-992772-2
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Oxford Ritual Studies Series; Oxford Ritual Studies
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; 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