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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies
The sixteenth-century encounter between Mesoamericans and Europeans
resulted in a tremendous loss of life in indigenous communities and
significantly impacted their health and healing strategies.
Contributors to this special issue of Ethnohistory address how
indigenous people experienced bodily health in the wake of this
encounter. By exploring archival indigenous and Spanish-language
documents, contributors address how bodily health was experienced
in the wake of the European encounter and uncover transformations
of health discourses and experiences of illness. They investigate
eclectic healing practices and medical chants; changing notions of
the causes of illnesses; and the language of cleansing ceremonies,
bone-setting, midwifery, and maternal medicine. Contributors.
Sabina Cruz de la Cruz, Rebecca Dufendach, Servando Hinojosa,
Timothy W. Knowlton, Gabrielle Vail, Edber Dzidz Yam
The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first
biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God's name exactly
as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward
as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses,
to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications
of the Bible's core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other
Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible's philosophy, roughing
out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see
themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us
do once the "religious" glare is reduced) are committed to conduct
their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the
natural world. Persons and Other Things is also the author's
testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out the
lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking
philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers.
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The belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled "lost
tribes of Israel"-Israelites driven from their homeland around 740
BCE-took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the
United States during its first half century. In Lost Tribes Found,
Matthew W. Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about
religious nationalism in early America. Some white Protestants,
Mormons, American Jews, and Indigenous people constructed
nationalist narratives around the then-popular idea of "Israelite
Indians." Although these were minority viewpoints, they reveal that
the story of religion and nationalism in the early United States
was more complicated and wide-ranging than studies of American
"chosen-ness" or "manifest destiny" suggest. Telling stories about
Israelite Indians, Dougherty argues, allowed members of specific
communities to understand the expanding United States, to envision
its transformation, and to propose competing forms of sovereignty.
In these stories both settler and Indigenous intellectuals found
biblical explanations for the American empire and its stark racial
hierarchy. Lost Tribes Found goes beyond the legal and political
structure of the nineteenth-century U.S. empire. In showing how the
trope of the Israelite Indian appealed to the emotions that bound
together both nations and religious groups, the book adds a new
dimension and complexity to our understanding of the history and
underlying narratives of early America.
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