Sounds of tohi : Cherokee health and well-being in Southern Appalachia /

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"This project is the result of almost two decades of work by medical anthropologist Lisa J. Lefler and Cherokee Elder and traditionalist Thomas N. Belt. It is a "dialogue" of their interest and application of traditional indigenous knowledge and the importance of place for two people...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Lefler, Lisa J. (Author), Belt, Thomas N. (Author)
Other Authors: Duncan, Pamela, 1961- (writer of foreword.), Holland, T. J., 1976-2020 (writer of foreword.), Hatley, M. Thomas, 1951- (writer of afterword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Cherokee Indians > Medicine > North Carolina, Western.
Cherokee Indians > Health and hygiene > North Carolina, Western.
Traditional medicine > North Carolina, Western.
Ethnoscience > North Carolina, Western.
Cherokee Indians > Medicine
Ethnoscience
Traditional medicine
Western North Carolina
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Pamela Duncan
  • Foreword / by T.J. Holland
  • Preface / by Lisa J. Lefler
  • Tohi
  • Making a connection between indigenous women, history, and healing the community : a brief introduction to matrilineality
  • When the land is sick, we are sick : metaphysics of indigenous epistemologies
  • The land keeps our history and identity : Cherokee and Appalachian cosmography
  • Indigenizing counseling
  • We are of this place : integrating traditional science and health
  • Decolonizing and indigenizing our minds for better health : tohi
  • Afterword: Listening to the sounds of tohi / by Tom Hatley.

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