2012 Aboriginal Studies - UBC Press

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red Medicine
Traditional Indigenous Rites of
Birthing and Healing
Patrisia Gonzales
Patrisia Gonzales addresses “Red
Medicine” as a system of healing that
includes birthing practices, dreaming,
and purification rites to re-establish
personal and social equilibrium. The
book explores Indigenous medicine
across North America, with a special
emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge
has endured and persisted among
peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales
combines her lived experience in Red
Medicine as an herbalist and traditional
birth attendant with in-depth research
into oral traditions, storytelling, and the
meanings of symbols to uncover how
Indigenous knowledge endures over time.
And she shows how this knowledge is now
being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican
Americans and Mexican Indigenous
peoples.
May 2012
978-0-8165-2956-8 Pb $35.00
272 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Health, History, Hispanic &
Latin American studies, Complementary
& Alternative Health, sociology
First Peoples: New Directions in
Indigenous Studies
University of Arizona Press
Canadian rights only
white Man’s water
Erica Prussing
Erica Prussing provides the first in-depth
assessment of the politics of Native
sobriety by focusing on the Northern
Cheyenne community in southeastern
Montana, where for many decades the
federally funded health care system
has relied on the Twelve Step program
of Alcoholics Anonymous. White Man’s
Water provides a thoughtful and careful
analysis of Cheyenne views of sobriety
and the politics that surround the selective
appeal of Twelve Step approaches
despite wide-ranging local critiques.
Narratives from participants in these programs
debunk long-standing stereotypes
about “Indian drinking” and offer insight
into the diversity of experiences with
alcohol that actually occur among Native
North Americans.
eRICA PRussINg is an assistant professor
of anthropology and community and
behavioral health at the University of
Iowa.
2011, 978-0-8165-2943-8 HC $49.95
288 pages, 6 x 9"
4 b&w photographs, 1 map, 1 table
Aboriginal studies, Aboriginal Health,
Politics and Policy
First Peoples: New Directions in
Indigenous Studies
University of Arizona Press
Canadian rights only
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