The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health

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Juliet McMullin

The Healthy Ancestor

Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health

Juliet McMullin

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English

Left Coast Press Inc
01 October 2009

Indigenous peoples; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical anthropology

Series: Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology

Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they “fail” to seek medical care, are “non-compliant” patients, or “lack immunity” enjoyed by the “mainstream” population. Challenging this dominant approach to indigenous health, Juliet McMullin shows how it masks more fundamental inequalities that become literally embodied in Native Americans, shifting blame from unequal social relations to biology, individual behavior, and cultural or personal deficiencies. Weaving a complex story of Native Hawai’ian health in its historical, political, and cultural context, she shows how traditional practices that integrated relationships of caring for the land, the body, and the ancestors are being revitalized both on the islands and in the indigenous diaspora. For the fields of medical anthropology, public health, nursing, epidemiology, and indigenous studies, McMullin’s important book offers models for more effective and culturally appropriate approaches to building healthy communities.

By: Juliet McMullin
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781598744996
ISBN 10: 1598744992
Series: Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 01 October 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Hawaiian Health: A Casualty of History 2. Managing Identity, Context and Methods 3. Complicating Health Seeking Practices 4. Variations in Definitions of Health 5. Remembering Ancestors: Food and Land 6. Constituting the Hawaiian Body: Resisting and Reinterpreting Health and Control Conclusion References

Juliet Marie McMullin is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California Riverside.

Reviews for The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health

The Healthy Ancestor is an exciting new contribution to Pacific studies and critical medical anthropology. This impressively detailed study reveals the vital connections between Hawaiian concepts of 'health' and cultural identity. Taking the reader on a journey into Hawaiian history, then to contemporary Hawai'i and the 'off-island' population in California, McMullin convincingly demonstrates the political and economic implications of health inequalities and the need to recontextualise concepts of health within cultural knowledge and Hawaiian identity. <br><br>- Helen Lee, LaTrobe University, Australia, and author of Tongans Overseas: Between Two Shores