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Recovery, renewal, reclaiming : anthropological research toward healing / edited by Lindsey King.

Title: Recovery, renewal, reclaiming : anthropological research toward healing / edited by Lindsey King.
Publication: Knoxville, Tennessee : Newfound Press, University of Tennessee Libraries, [2015]

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vi, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Faced with a world that is environmentally out of balance, that is unhealthy in many respects, and that reflects stark inequalities, anthropologists are challenging themselves and others to engage in recovery, renewal, and reclaiming. This volume of Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings seeks to grapple with these challenges head-on. The essays provide wide-ranging discussions of concrete problems, often with a focus on the Appalachian region. Among the important issues raised are the following: the effect of landscape on health in Huntington, West Virginia; food justice; drug use and its misrepre-sentation in Appalachia; the relationship between evangelical religion and depression; the changing definitions of mental illness over time and how those definitions are used as instruments of social control; how the spiritual practices of Eastern Band Cherokees are connected to medical care; and the challenges recent Haitian immigrants face in obtaining health care in a new culture. While solutions to these problems are complex and always have their roots in local circum-stance, the essays in Recovery, Renewal, Reclaiming will inspire strategies that will clear blighted environments, deliver nourishing food, ease the lives of marginalized people, and lead to respect for all beliefs as we work together to bring balance to our environmental, physical, and spiritual health. -- Amazon.com.

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Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ; no. 43

Uniform Title

Southern Anthropological Society proceedings no. 43.

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"Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Johnson City, Tennessee March, 2013."

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Includes bibliographical references.

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committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Lindsey King -- Creating healthy community in the postindustrial city / Brain A. Hoey -- "The revolution will be community grown" : food justice in the urban agriculture movement of Detroit / James C. Tolleson -- Is there a prescription drug "epidemic" in Appalachian Kentucky? : media representations and implications for women who misuse prescription drugs / Lesly-Marie Buer -- The cultural context of depression in Appalachia : evangelical Christianity and the experience of emotional distress and healing / Susan E. Keefe and Lisa Curtin -- Idioms of distress among white women patients at the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum, Marion, Virginia, 1887-1891 / Anthony P. Cavender -- Water and Cherokee healing / Lisa J. Lefler -- The influences of Vodou on medical pluralism and treatment-seeking behavior among Haitian immigrants in the United States : suggestions for cultural competency programs / Sarah Hoover.

ISBN

0986080306
9780986080302

OCLC

910294501
SCSB-9959829

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