Disciplined hearts : history, identity, and depression in an American Indian community /

"'This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed.' When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encoun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]
Temas:
Salish Indians > Psychology.
Salish Indians > Mental health.
Salish Indians > Ethnic identity.
Depression, Mental > Montana > Flathead Indian Reservation.
Ethnopsychology > Montana > Flathead Indian Reservation.
Cultural psychiatry > Montana > Flathead Indian Reservation.
Depressive Disorder > ethnology
Depression > ethnology
Indians, North American > psychology
Flathead > Psychologie.
Flathead > Santé mentale.
Flathead > Identité ethnique.
PSYCHOLOGY > Ethnopsychology.
Cultural psychiatry
Depression, Mental
Ethnopsychology
Salish Indians > Psychology
Social conditions
Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.) > Social conditions.
Montana > Flathead Indian Reservation
American Indians.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"'This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed.' When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements. This astonishingly widespread concern propelled the author into the complex lives of these modern American Indian people and into the historical roots of their contemporary situation. In Disciplined Hearts, O'Nell draws on recent anthropological theory to locate Flathead depression in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people. According to O'Nell, Flathead narratives of depression are tales in which narrators use their demoralization as a guide for modern Indian life. Underlying their tales, she says, is the dramatic assertion that depression is the natural condition of'real Indians'--those who have'disciplined'their hearts by recasting their personal sadness into compassion for others. This rich account of family and community life describes the moral imagination with which Flathead Indian people weave together historical and personal loss, American Indian identity, and social responsibility. Based on her ethnographic and clinical work, O'Nell pinpoints American Indian depression within a complex interplay of cultural ideas of the self and the Indian family, emotion and ethnic identity, and historical relations between Indians and whites."--Provided by publisher
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
ISBN:9780520921269
0520921267
0585093199
9780585093192

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