Author: A E McClish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578493374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Life is hard for anyone in the wake of an accidental ice age and subsequent military take-over. Wendigos, mutated cannibals affected by a government-released virus, exist at the edge of society, avoiding the government Enforcers who patrol the city streets and preying upon any human unlucky enough to be turned out on their own. Jason, a Wendigo, lives alone with his dogs in his claimed territory. Shunned by his family, except for his missing brother, Jason's one goal beyond survival is to discover his brother's fate. To this end, he strikes a deal with Amica, a human investigator who has her own quest: to take revenge on the Wendigos who killed her daughter. Cooperating for mutual benefit, the two travel across the frigid landscape, witnessing the atrocities of a government caught up in its own greed for control and discovering that humanity is not necessarily a human trait.
Wendigo Psychosis
Author: A E McClish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578493374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Life is hard for anyone in the wake of an accidental ice age and subsequent military take-over. Wendigos, mutated cannibals affected by a government-released virus, exist at the edge of society, avoiding the government Enforcers who patrol the city streets and preying upon any human unlucky enough to be turned out on their own. Jason, a Wendigo, lives alone with his dogs in his claimed territory. Shunned by his family, except for his missing brother, Jason's one goal beyond survival is to discover his brother's fate. To this end, he strikes a deal with Amica, a human investigator who has her own quest: to take revenge on the Wendigos who killed her daughter. Cooperating for mutual benefit, the two travel across the frigid landscape, witnessing the atrocities of a government caught up in its own greed for control and discovering that humanity is not necessarily a human trait.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578493374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Life is hard for anyone in the wake of an accidental ice age and subsequent military take-over. Wendigos, mutated cannibals affected by a government-released virus, exist at the edge of society, avoiding the government Enforcers who patrol the city streets and preying upon any human unlucky enough to be turned out on their own. Jason, a Wendigo, lives alone with his dogs in his claimed territory. Shunned by his family, except for his missing brother, Jason's one goal beyond survival is to discover his brother's fate. To this end, he strikes a deal with Amica, a human investigator who has her own quest: to take revenge on the Wendigos who killed her daughter. Cooperating for mutual benefit, the two travel across the frigid landscape, witnessing the atrocities of a government caught up in its own greed for control and discovering that humanity is not necessarily a human trait.
Revenge of the Windigo
Author: James Burgess Waldram
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086006
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the central question of James Waldram's Revenge of the Windigo. This erudite and highly articulate work is about the knowledge of Aboriginal mental health: who generates it; how it is generated and communicated; and what has been - and continues to be - its implications for Aboriginal peoples. To better understand how this knowledge emerged, James Waldram undertakes an exhaustive examination of three disciplines - anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry - and reveals how together they have constructed a gravely distorted portrait of 'the Aboriginal.' Waldram continues this acute examination under two general themes. The first focuses on how culture as a concept has been theorized and operationalized in the study of Aboriginal mental health. The second seeks to elucidate the contribution that Aboriginal peoples have inadvertently made to theoretical and methodological developments in the three fields under discussion, primarily as subjects for research and sources of data. It is Waldram's assertion that, despite the enormous amount of research undertaken on Aboriginal peoples, researchers have mostly failed to comprehend the meaning of contemporary Aboriginality for mental health and illness, preferring instead the reflection of their own scientific lens as the only means to properly observe, measure, assess, and treat. Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086006
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the central question of James Waldram's Revenge of the Windigo. This erudite and highly articulate work is about the knowledge of Aboriginal mental health: who generates it; how it is generated and communicated; and what has been - and continues to be - its implications for Aboriginal peoples. To better understand how this knowledge emerged, James Waldram undertakes an exhaustive examination of three disciplines - anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry - and reveals how together they have constructed a gravely distorted portrait of 'the Aboriginal.' Waldram continues this acute examination under two general themes. The first focuses on how culture as a concept has been theorized and operationalized in the study of Aboriginal mental health. The second seeks to elucidate the contribution that Aboriginal peoples have inadvertently made to theoretical and methodological developments in the three fields under discussion, primarily as subjects for research and sources of data. It is Waldram's assertion that, despite the enormous amount of research undertaken on Aboriginal peoples, researchers have mostly failed to comprehend the meaning of contemporary Aboriginality for mental health and illness, preferring instead the reflection of their own scientific lens as the only means to properly observe, measure, assess, and treat. Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.
Dangerous Spirits
Author: Shawn Smallman
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1772030325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
An examination of the role of windigo narratives among the Algonquian peoples of North American and how those narratives were influenced through colonialism.
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1772030325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
An examination of the role of windigo narratives among the Algonquian peoples of North American and how those narratives were influenced through colonialism.
The Wendigo
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Anthropologica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Revenge of the Windigo
Author: James B. Waldram
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442656131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the central question of James Waldram's Revenge of the Windigo. This erudite and highly articulate work is about the knowledge of Aboriginal mental health: who generates it; how it is generated and communicated; and what has been – and continues to be – its implications for Aboriginal peoples. To better understand how this knowledge emerged, James Waldram undertakes an exhaustive examination of three disciplines – anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry – and reveals how together they have constructed a gravely distorted portrait of 'the Aboriginal.' Waldram continues this acute examination under two general themes. The first focuses on how culture as a concept has been theorized and operationalized in the study of Aboriginal mental health. The second seeks to elucidate the contribution that Aboriginal peoples have inadvertently made to theoretical and methodological developments in the three fields under discussion, primarily as subjects for research and sources of data. It is Waldram's assertion that, despite the enormous amount of research undertaken on Aboriginal peoples, researchers have mostly failed to comprehend the meaning of contemporary Aboriginality for mental health and illness, preferring instead the reflection of their own scientific lens as the only means to properly observe, measure, assess, and treat. Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442656131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the central question of James Waldram's Revenge of the Windigo. This erudite and highly articulate work is about the knowledge of Aboriginal mental health: who generates it; how it is generated and communicated; and what has been – and continues to be – its implications for Aboriginal peoples. To better understand how this knowledge emerged, James Waldram undertakes an exhaustive examination of three disciplines – anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry – and reveals how together they have constructed a gravely distorted portrait of 'the Aboriginal.' Waldram continues this acute examination under two general themes. The first focuses on how culture as a concept has been theorized and operationalized in the study of Aboriginal mental health. The second seeks to elucidate the contribution that Aboriginal peoples have inadvertently made to theoretical and methodological developments in the three fields under discussion, primarily as subjects for research and sources of data. It is Waldram's assertion that, despite the enormous amount of research undertaken on Aboriginal peoples, researchers have mostly failed to comprehend the meaning of contemporary Aboriginality for mental health and illness, preferring instead the reflection of their own scientific lens as the only means to properly observe, measure, assess, and treat. Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.
The Orders of the Dreamed
Author: Jennifer S.H. Brown
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions. They also provide a comparative summary of Subarctic Algonquian religion, with emphasis on the beliefs and practices described by Nelson. Stan Cuthand, a Cree Anglican minister, author, and language instructor, who lived in Lac la Ronge in the 1940s, adds a commentary relating Nelson's writing to his own knowledge of Cree religion in Saskatchewan. Emma LaRoque, an author and instructor in Native Studies, presents a Native scholar's perspective on the ethics of publishing historical documents.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions. They also provide a comparative summary of Subarctic Algonquian religion, with emphasis on the beliefs and practices described by Nelson. Stan Cuthand, a Cree Anglican minister, author, and language instructor, who lived in Lac la Ronge in the 1940s, adds a commentary relating Nelson's writing to his own knowledge of Cree religion in Saskatchewan. Emma LaRoque, an author and instructor in Native Studies, presents a Native scholar's perspective on the ethics of publishing historical documents.
Columbus and Other Cannibals
Author: Jack D. Forbes
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1583229825
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before. Identifying the Western compulsion to consume the earth as a sickness, Forbes writes: "Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. . . . These characteristics all push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in. . . . This is the disease of the consuming of other creatures’ lives and possessions. I call it cannibalism." This updated edition includes a new chapter by the author.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1583229825
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before. Identifying the Western compulsion to consume the earth as a sickness, Forbes writes: "Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. . . . These characteristics all push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in. . . . This is the disease of the consuming of other creatures’ lives and possessions. I call it cannibalism." This updated edition includes a new chapter by the author.
Anthropologica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Culture-Bound Syndromes
Author: Ronald C. Simons
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400952511
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been published on well known and less familiar syndromes, and there have been a number of attempts to put some order into the field of inquiry. In a review of the literature on culture-bound syndromes up to 1969 Yap made certain suggestions for organizing thinking about them which for the most part have not received general acceptance (see Carr, this volume, p. 199). Through the seventies new descriptive and conceptual work was scarce, but in the last few years books and papers discussing the field were authored or edited by Tseng and McDermott (1981), AI-Issa (1982), Friedman and Faguet (1982) and Murphy (1982). In 1983 Favazza summarized his understanding of the state of current thinking for the fourth edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, and a symposium on culture-bound syndromes was organized by Kenny for the Eighth International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology. The strong est impression to emerge from all this recent work is that there is no substantive consensus, and that the very concept, "culture-bound syndrome" could well use some serious reconsideration. As the role of culture-specific beliefs and prac tices in all affliction has come to be increasingly recognized it has become less and less clear what sets the culture-bound syndromes apart.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400952511
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been published on well known and less familiar syndromes, and there have been a number of attempts to put some order into the field of inquiry. In a review of the literature on culture-bound syndromes up to 1969 Yap made certain suggestions for organizing thinking about them which for the most part have not received general acceptance (see Carr, this volume, p. 199). Through the seventies new descriptive and conceptual work was scarce, but in the last few years books and papers discussing the field were authored or edited by Tseng and McDermott (1981), AI-Issa (1982), Friedman and Faguet (1982) and Murphy (1982). In 1983 Favazza summarized his understanding of the state of current thinking for the fourth edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, and a symposium on culture-bound syndromes was organized by Kenny for the Eighth International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology. The strong est impression to emerge from all this recent work is that there is no substantive consensus, and that the very concept, "culture-bound syndrome" could well use some serious reconsideration. As the role of culture-specific beliefs and prac tices in all affliction has come to be increasingly recognized it has become less and less clear what sets the culture-bound syndromes apart.