Coming full circle : spirituality and wellness among native communities in the Pacific Northwest

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Label

Coming full circle : spirituality and wellness among native communities in the Pacific Northwest

Title remainder

spirituality and wellness among native communities in the Pacific Northwest

Statement of responsibility

Suzanne Crawford O'Brien

Creator

• Crawford O'Brien, Suzanne

Subject

• Coast Salish Indians -- Health and hygiene
• Coast Salish Indians -- Medicine
• Coast Salish Indians -- Religion
• Ethnoecology -- Northwest, Pacific
• Coast Salish Indiains -- Medicine
• RELIGION / Ethnic & Tribal
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
• Traditional medicine -- Northwest, Pacific
• HEALTH & FITNESS / Healing

Language

eng

Summary

"Coming Full Circle is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between spirituality and health in several contemporary 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, which 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 contemporary Native healthcare. 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 contemporary Native Americans and their worldviews. "--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.897/0795

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E99.S21

LC item number

C73 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography