Joseph D. Calabrese

A Different Medicine

Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church

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Produktbeschreibung

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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780199927845
• ISBN-10: 0199927847
• Artikelnr.: 36692450

Autorenporträt

Lecturer in medical anthropology, University College London

Inhaltsangabe

* 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