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A different medicine : postcolonial healing in the Native American Church
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- Creator
- Joseph D. Calabrese
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013
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- xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199927722, 0199927723, 9780199927845, 0199927847
- OCLC
- ocn809365729
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.
- pt. 1. Anthropological and clinical orientations. Introduction : Peyote, cultural paradigm clash and the multiplicity of the normal -- Expanding our conceptualization of the therapeutic : toward a suitable theoretical framework for the study of cultural psychiatries -- Clinical ethnography : clinically informed self-reflective immersion in local worlds of suffering, healing and well-being -- pt. 2. Cultural and personal healing in the Native American Church. The unfolding cultural paradigm clash : ritual Peyote use and the struggle for postcolonial healing in North America -- Medicine and spirit : the dual nature of Peyote -- The Peyote ceremony : psychopharmacology, ritual process and experiences of healing -- Kinship, socialization and ritual in Navajo Peyotist families -- Postcolonial hybridity and ritual bureaucracy in New Mexico : participant observation in a Navajo Peyotist healer's clinical program -- Decolonizing our understandings of the normal and the therapeutic
Subjects
- Native American Church of North America.
- Native American Church of North America.
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- Peyotism.
- Indians of North America -- Religion.
- Indians of North America -- Medicine.
- Navajo Indians -- Religion.
- Navajo Indians -- Medical care.
- Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
- Medicine, Traditional.
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- Indians, North American.
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- Mescaline -- therapeutic use.
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- Ceremonial Behavior.
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- Spiritual Therapies.
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