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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781010503321

Autore

McMullin Juliet Marie

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41831-2

1-315-41832-0

1-315-41833-9

1-59874-742-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Advances in critical medical anthropology

Disciplina

306.4/6109969

Soggetti

Medical anthropology - Hawaii

Public health - Hawaii

Traditional medicine - Hawaii

Hawaiians - Health and hygiene

Hawaiians - Medical care

Hawaiians - Ethnic identity

Human body - Social aspects - Hawaii

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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