An Ethnography of Stress

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The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia, Culture, Mind and Society, Culture, Mind, and Society

ISBN: 0230110223
ISBN 13: 9780230110229
Autor: Burbank, V
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiv, 219 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.01.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

VALUABLE ETHNOGRAPHY: The author’s fieldwork is from a remote Aboriginal community of about 800 people – a dream type of community for anthropologists to studyBROAD AUDIENCE: Stress is a hugely important topic. This will appeal to cultural and psychological anthropologists, as well as those in health fieldsTIMELY: Addressing health disparities is on the national agenda and this should get a lot of attention

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Beschreibung

Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of cognitive anthropology with frameworks drawn from epidemiology, evolutionary theory, and social, psychological and biological sciences illuminates the actions, emotions, and stresses of daily life. While this analysis implicates structures and processes of inequality in the genesis of ill health, its focus remains on the people who suffer, grieve, and live with the dilemmas of an intercultural life.

Autorenporträt

VICTORIA KATHERINE BURBANK Professor of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of Aboriginal Adolescence: Maidenhood in an Australian Community and Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia.

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