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Hi all. Here are two books that may shed some light on the issues raised by Marsha with respect to foraging societies and concepts of healing as opposed to conflict. This work is from the people who were forced by drought in the early 1950s to the Catholic mission at Balgo Hills in the Tanami Desert, the north-westerly part of the Great Western Desert in Western Australia. On the map its 250 km south of Halls Creek. Most of the people are Kukatja with some Pintupi, and also Walmajarri (but they mostly they ended up in Fitzroy Crossing from the 1950s to 60s). The older people who remember walking in to the mission with their parents don't have much English but the younger generations all speak some English as they have a good school. They go out on the weekends for bush tucker but otherwise buy from the store. Brian McCoy was a priest there, and went back to do this research on men's concepts of health and healing: holding one another across generations. Father Peile had his work published posthumously. From my amateurish attempts to understand concepts of health in relation to their children (I'm a child specialist) from reading now old ethnographies and from talking to the older women with my Aboriginal health worker colleague as interpreter, healing and inter-group conflict are polar opposites. In fact I worry that our failure as a health industry to move one inch from an individualistic atomistic view of health is a major reason for the failure to 'close the gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health and life expectancy in Australia. McCoy BF. Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men. Aboriginal Studies Press 2008. Peile AM (ed. P Bindon.) Body and Soul. An Aboriginal View. Hesperion. 1997. Regards, John Boulton Dr John Boulton MD FRACP Senior Regional Paediatrician Kimberley Health Region. Locked Bag 4011. Broome. WA 6725 ------ H-MedAnthro: H-Net Network on Medical Anthropology To post messages to the list, send them to: h-medanthro@h-net.msu.edu Network page: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~medanthro/ Society for Medical Anthropology website: http://www.medanthro.net/ To manage your subscription, visit: http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi ------ H-MedAnthro: H-Net Network on Medical Anthropology To post messages to the list, send them to: h-medanthro@h-net.msu.edu Network page: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~medanthro/ Society for Medical Anthropology website: http://www.medanthro.net/ To manage your subscription, visit: http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi
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