TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crawford O'Brien,Suzanne J.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Coming full circle: spirituality and wellness among native communities in the Pacific Northwest 
SN  - 9780803248595
AV  - E99.S21 C73 2013
U1  - 305.897/0795 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Lincoln, Nebraska
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS / Healing
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Ethnic & Tribal
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Northwest, Pacific
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Coast Salish Indiains
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Coast Salish Indians
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Religion
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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.  "--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803248595/
ER  -