Disciplined Hearts History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community

Name: Disciplined Hearts History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community
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ISBN: 9780520214460

ISBN-10: 0520214463

ISBN-13: 9780520214460

Edition: 1996 (Annual)

Authors: Theresa DeLeane O'Nell

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"This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed." When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements. This astonishingly widespread concern propelled the author into the complex lives of these modern American Indian people and into the historical roots of their contemporary situation. InDisciplined Hearts,O'Nell draws on recent anthropological theory to locate Flathead depression in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people. According to O'Nell, Flathead narratives of…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 265
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



History and Identity



Telling about Whites, Talking about Indians



The Making and the Unmaking of the "Real Indians"



Loneliness and Pity



Speaking to the Heart



Feeling Bereaved, Feeling Aggrieved, and Feeling Worthless



Loneliness and Depression



Speaking from the Heart



Culture and Depression


Afterword


Notes


References


Index