Indigenious Women Healers

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Indigenous Women Healers Of Bolivia

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Author : Nidia Bustillos Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-04-11

Indigenous Women Healers Of Bolivia written by Nidia Bustillos Rodriguez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-11 with Health & Fitness categories.

This book is about Bolivian women who have made efforts to connect human beings with their diverse and unknown forms of cosmological harmony.Nidia Bustillos approaches the difficult task of re-inscribing in the history of humanity a part of the indigenous cultures that the domination of the West and the impact of patriarchies on them, has almost eliminated from our cultural records: the task and knowledge of women healers, with great critical support and historical documentation. What first captures us in the reading are the testimonies of the humble, indigenous, Bolivian, women who devote themselves to healing, to whom the book is dedicated.

Women Healers And Indigenous Systems Of Healing

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Author : Emily Beth Merkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

Women Healers And Indigenous Systems Of Healing written by Emily Beth Merkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Alternative medicine categories.

Taking Medicine

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Author : Kristin Burnett
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01

Taking Medicine written by Kristin Burnett and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Social Science categories.

Hunters, medicine men, and missionaries continue to dominate images and narratives of the West, even though historians have recognized women’s role as colonizer and colonized since the 1980s. Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by presenting colonial medicine as a gendered phenomenon. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women in the Treaty 7 region served as healers and caregivers – to their own people and to settler society – until the advent of settler-run hospitals and nursing stations. By revealing Aboriginal and settler women’s contributions to health care, Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine in the contact zone.

Daughters Of Hariti

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Author : Santi Rozario
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02

Daughters Of Hariti written by Santi Rozario and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.

Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.

Women As Healers

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Author : Carol Shepherd McClain
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1989

Women As Healers written by Carol Shepherd McClain and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Medical categories.

In Women as Healers, thirteen contributors explore the intersection of feminist anthropology and medical anthropology in eleven case studies of women in traditional and emergent healing roles in diverse parts of the world. In a spectrum of healing roles ranging from family healers to shamans, diviner-mediums, and midwives, women throughout the world pursue strategic ends through healing, manipulate cultural images to effect cures and explain misfortune, and shape and are shaped by the social and political contexts in which they work. In an introductory chapter, Carol Shepherd McClain traces the evolution of ideas in medical anthropology and in the anthropology of women that have both constrained and expanded our understanding of the significance of gender to healing-one of the most fundamental and universal of human activities. The contributors include Carol Shepherd McClain, Ruthbeth Finerman, Carolyn Nordstrom, Carole H. Browner, William Wedenoja, Marjery Foz, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern, Laurel Kendall, Merrill Signer, Roberto Garcia, Edward C. Green, Carolyn Sargent, and Margaret Reid.

Aeta Women Indigenous Healers In The Philippines

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Author : Rose Ann Torres
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Aeta Women Indigenous Healers In The Philippines written by Rose Ann Torres and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.

Native Healer

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Author : Medicine Grizzlybear (Robert G) Lake
language : en
Publisher: Quest Books
Release Date : 2014-08-22

Native Healer written by Medicine Grizzlybear (Robert G) Lake and has been published by Quest Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-22 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

An exciting glimpse into the world of Native American shamanism. Many today claim to be healers and spiritual teachers, but Medicine Grizzlybear Lake definitely is both. In this work he explains how a person is called by higher powers to be a medicine man or woman and describes the trials and tests of a candidate. Lake gives a colorful picture of Native American shamanism and discusses ceremonies such as the vision quest and sweat lodge.

Traditional Healers Of Central Australia

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Author : Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjar Yankunytjatjara Women's Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Traditional Healers Of Central Australia written by Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjar Yankunytjatjara Women's Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Aboriginal Australians categories.

Traditional Healers of the Central Desert contains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert language speaking Aboriginal people) culture and practices. It is accurate, authorised information about their work, in their own words.The practice of traditional healing is still very much a part of contemporary Aboriginal society. The ngangkari currently employed at NPY Women's Council deliver treatments to people across a tri-state region of about 350,000 sq km, in more than 25 communities in SA, WA and NT. Acknowledged, respected and accepted these ngangkari work collaboratively with hospitals and health professionals even beyond this region, working hand in hand with Western medical practitioners.

The Walk Without Limbs Searching For Indigenous Health Knowledge In A Rural Context In South Africa

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Author : Gubela Mji
language : en
Publisher: AOSIS
Release Date : 2019-12-12

The Walk Without Limbs Searching For Indigenous Health Knowledge In A Rural Context In South Africa written by Gubela Mji and has been published by AOSIS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Medical categories.

In a country as diverse as South Africa, sickness and health often mean different things to different people – so much so that the different health definitions and health belief models in the country seem to have a profound influence on the health-seeking behaviour of the people who are part of our vibrant, multicultural society. This book is concerned with the integration of indigenous health knowledge (IHK) into the current Western--orientated Primary Health Care (PHC) model. The first section of the book highlights the challenges facing the training of health professionals using a curriculum that is not drawing its knowledge base from the indigenous context and the people of that context. Such professionals will later recognise that they are walking without limbs in matters pertaining to health. The area that was chosen for conducting the research was KwaBomvana in Xhora (Elliotdale), Eastern Cape province, South Africa. The people who reside there are called AmaBomvana. The area where the Bomvana peoples reside is served by Madwaleni Hospital and eight surrounding clinics. Qualitative ethnographic, feminist methods of data collection supported the research done for Section 1 of the book. Section 2 comprises the translation and implementation of PhD study outcomes and had contributions from various researchers. In the critical research findings of the PhD study, older Xhosa women identify the inclusion of social determinants of health as vital to the health problems they managed within their homes. For them, each disease is linked to a social determinant of health, and the management of health problems includes the management of social determinants of health. For them, it is about the health of the home and not just about the management of disease. They believe that healthy homes make healthy villages, and that the prevention of the development of disease is related to the strengthening of the home. Health and illness should be seen within both physical and spiritual contexts; without health, there can be no progress in the home. When defining health, the older Xhosa women add three critical components to the WHO health definition, namely, food security, healthy children and families, and peace and security in their villages. Prof. Mji further proposes that these three elements should be included in the next revision of the WHO health definition because they are not only important for the Bomvana people where the research was conducted, but also for the rest of humanity. In light of the promise of National Health Insurance and the revitalisation of PHC, this book proposes that these two major national health policies should take cognisance of the IHK utilised by the older Xhosa women. In addtion to what this research implies, these policies should also take note of all IHK from the indigenous peoples of South Africa, Africa and the rest of the world, and that there should be a clear plan as to how the knowledge can be supported within a health care systems approach.

Women And Knowledge In Mesoamerica

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Author : Paloma Martinez-Cruz
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2011-11

Women And Knowledge In Mesoamerica written by Paloma Martinez-Cruz and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with Literary Criticism categories.

Paloma Martinez-Cruz argues that the medicine traditions of Mesoamerican women constitute a hemispheric intellectual lineage that continues to thrive despite the legacy of colonization. Martinez-Cruz asserts that indigenous and mestiza women healers are custodians of a knowledge base that remains virtually uncharted. The few works looking at the knowledge of women in Mesoamerica generally examine only the written—even academic—world, accessible only to the most elite segments of (customarily male) society. These works have consistently excluded the essential repertoire and performed knowledge of women who think and work in ways other than the textual. And while two of the book’s chapters critique contemporary novels, Martinez-Cruz also calls for the exploration of non-textual knowledge transmission. In this regard, the book's goals and methods are close to those of performance scholarship and anthropology, and these methods reveal Mesoamerican women to be public intellectuals. In Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica, fieldwork and ethnography combine to reveal women healers as models of agency. Her multidisciplinary approach allows Martinez-Cruz to disrupt Euro-based intellectual hegemony and to make a case for the epistemic authority of Native women. Written from a Chicana perspective, this study is learned, personal, and engaging for anyone who is interested in the wisdom that prevailing analytical cultures have deemed “unintelligible.” As it turns out, those who are unacquainted with the sometimes surprising extent and depth of wisdom of indigenous women healers simply haven’t been looking in the right places—outside the texts from which they have been consistently excluded.