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A Different Medicine: Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church - Oxford Ritual Studies Series Calabrese, Joseph D. (Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, University College London)
A Different Medicine: Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church - Oxford Ritual Studies Series
Calabrese, Joseph D. (Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, University College London)
Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC).
240 pages, 2 line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 15, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199927722 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 243 × 19 mm · 549 g |
| Language | English |