| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 414 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Anthropological horizons ; 26
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Anthropological horizons ; 26.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-391) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: monsters and mental health -- Part A: Constructing the aboriginal -- Constructing aboriginal personality: the early years. Ruth Benedict and the Boasian tradition ; The emergence of psychoanalytical anthropology and the search for the Indians' 'basic personality structure' ; The Indian education research project -- The psychoanalyst's aboriginal. Anthropology and the Rorschach: no experience required ; Atomism and the northern Indian ; Persistence of the Rorschach -- Measuring the aboriginal. Measuring aboriginal personality: the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory ; The confusion of race and culture in the measurement of aboriginal intelligence -- Part B: The disordered aboriginal -- The construction of aboriginal psychopathology. 'Latent schizophrenics and primitive people': early studies of psychopathology ; Marginality and the 'caught-between-two-worlds' paradigm -- The alcoholic aboriginal. Indian drinking and white man drinking -- The depressed aboriginal. Conceptualizing depression and suicide -- The culture-bound aboriginal. Windigo psychosis ; Pibloktoq ; Ghost sickness ; Why the culture-bound syndromes persist -- The traumatized aboriginal. Conceptualizing trauma and PTSD ; Trauma and the construction of 'residential school syndrome' -- Part C: Treating the aboriginal -- The clinician's aboriginal -- Healing the traditional aboriginal. The holistic aboriginal ; The use of culture and tradition in treatment ; Defining 'traditional aboriginal healing' -- Conclusion: the Windigo's revenge. Disturbed, disordered, and dysfunctional ; Problems of culture and history ; Defining the aboriginal ; Contemporary aboriginal cultural realities: Creolization and beyond. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Psychology.
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Indians of North America -- Psychology. |
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Indians of North America -- Mental health.
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Indians of North America -- Mental health. |
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Ethnopsychology -- History.
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Ethnopsychology. |
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History. |
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Indians, North American -- psychology. |
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Ethnopsychology -- history. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waldram, James B. (James Burgess). Revenge of the windigo. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2004 0802088260 (DLC) 2004301995 (OCoLC)53396855 |
| ISBN |
9781442683815 (electronic book) |
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1442683813 (electronic book) |
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0802088260 |
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9780802088260 |
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0802086004 |
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9780802086006 |
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