The healthy ancestor : embodied inequality and the revitalization of native Hawaiian health / Juliet McMullin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMullin, Juliet Marie.

Series:

Advances in critical medical anthropology.

Advances in critical medical anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology--Hawaii.

Medical anthropology.

Public health--Hawaii.

Public health.

Traditional medicine--Hawaii.

Traditional medicine.

Hawaiians--Health and hygiene.

Hawaiians.

Hawaiians--Medical care.

Hawaiians--Ethnic identity.

Human body--Social aspects--Hawaii.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Native Americans, shifting blame from unequal social relations to biology, individual behavior, and cultural or personal deficiencies. Weaving a complex story of Native Hawai'ian health in its historical

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 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; Index; About the Author

Notes:

First published 2010 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-41831-2

1-315-41832-0

1-315-41833-9

1-59874-742-8

9781315418339

OCLC:

711747396