1st Edition
The Healthy Ancestor Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health
By Juliet McMullin
Copyright 2009
200 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they “fail” to seek medical care, are “non-compliant” patients, or “lack immunity” enjoyed by the “mainstream” population. Challenging this dominant approach to indigenous health, Juliet McMullin shows how it masks more fundamental inequalities that become literally embodied in... Read more
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
Biography
Juliet Marie McMullin is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California Riverside.
