Juliet McMullin

The Healthy Ancestor

Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai'ian Health

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Produktbeschreibung

Weaving a complex story of Native Hawai'ian health in its historical, political, and cultural context, Juliet McMullin shows how traditional practices that integrated relationships of caring for the land, the body, and the ancestors are being revitalized both on the islands and in the indigenous diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781598745009
• ISBN-10: 159874500X
• Artikelnr.: 30511862

Autorenporträt

Juliet Marie McMullin is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Hawaiian Health: A Casualty of History 2. Managing
Identity, Context and Methods 3. Complicating Health Seeking Practices 4.
Variations in Definitions of Health 5. Remembering Ancestors: Food and Land
6. Constituting the Hawaiian Body: Resisting and Reinterpreting Health and
Control Conclusion References