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Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness Among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest - Couverture souple

Crawford O'Brien, Suzanne

 
9780803295247: Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness Among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803295243 ISBN 13 : 9780803295247
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803295243
ISBN 13 
9780803295247
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780803211278: Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness Among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0803211279 ISBN 13 :  9780803211278
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2013
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