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"I choose life" : contemporary medical and religious practices in the Navajo world

Title
"I choose life" : contemporary medical and religious practices in the Navajo world / Maureen Trudelle Schwarz.
Author
Schwarz, Maureen Trudelle, 1952-
Publication
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.

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Book/textUse in library JGE 08-55Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine

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Description
xi, 380 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
New directions in Native American studies ; v. 2
Subject
  • Navajo Indians > Medicine
  • Navajo Indians > Religion
  • Surgery
  • Traditional medicine > Southwest, New
  • Christianity and other religions > Shamanism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-369) and index.
Contents
Groundings -- Christianity, biomedicine, and the Native American church -- The politics and language of well-being -- Sources of pathosis -- The exchange of life substances -- Surgery and disposal of body parts -- Transplants -- Closing thoughts.
Call Number
JGE 08-55
ISBN
  • 9780806139418 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0806139412 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780806139616 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0806139617 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008002278
OCLC
191732298
Author
Schwarz, Maureen Trudelle, 1952-
Title
"I choose life" : contemporary medical and religious practices in the Navajo world / Maureen Trudelle Schwarz.
Imprint
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.
Series
New directions in Native American studies ; v. 2
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-369) and index.
Research Call Number
JGE 08-55
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