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"I choose life" : contemporary medical and religious practices in the Navajo world / Maureen Trudelle Schwarz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwarz, Maureen Trudelle, 1952-
- Series:
- New directions in Native American studies ; v. 2.
- New directions in Native American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navajo Indians--Medicine.
- Navajo Indians.
- Navajo Indians--Religion.
- Surgery.
- Traditional medicine--Southwest, New.
- Traditional medicine.
- Christianity and other religions--Shamanism.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Shamanism.
- New Southwest.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 380 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Groundings
- Christianity, biomedicine, and the Native American church
- The politics and language of well-being
- Sources of pathosis
- The exchange of life substances
- Surgery and disposal of body parts
- Transplants
- Closing thoughts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806139418
- 0806139412
- 9780806139616
- 0806139617
- OCLC:
- 191732298
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