Disciplined Hearts
Theresa Deleane O'Nell
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Description for Disciplined Hearts
Paperback. An account of family and community life that describes the moral imagination with which Flathead Indian people weave together historical and personal loss, American Indian identity, and social responsibility. It locates Flathead depression in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people. Num Pages: 265 pages, 3 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JHM; JMH; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
'This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80 percent 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. In "Disciplined 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 ... Read more
'This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80 percent 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. In "Disciplined 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520214460
SKU
V9780520214460
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Ref
99-14
About Theresa Deleane O'Nell
Theresa DeLeane O'Nell is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Director of Ethnographic Research at the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research.
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