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11%OFFKristin Burnett - Taking Medicine: Women´s Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930 - 9780774818292 - V9780774818292
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Taking Medicine: Women´s Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930

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Description for Taking Medicine: Women´s Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930 Paperback. Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine by bringing to light the healing work of Aboriginal and settler women in southern Alberta. Series: Women and Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.

The buffalo hunter, the medicine man, and the missionary continue to dominate the history of the North American west, even though historians have recognized women’s role as both colonizer and colonized since the 1980s.

Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by investigating the convergence of Aboriginal and settler therapeutic regimes in the Treaty 7 region from the perspective of women. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women played important roles as healers and caregivers, and the knowledge and healing work of both Aboriginal and settler women brought them into contact. But as settlement increased and the colonial ... Read more

By revealing Aboriginal and settler women’s contributions to the development of health care in southern Alberta, Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine and nursing in the contact zone.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Women and Indigenous Studies
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774818292
SKU
V9780774818292
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Ref
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About Kristin Burnett
Kristin Burnett is a member of the Department of History at Lakehead University.

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