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Author:   Richard Katz ,  Megan Biesele ,  Verna St. Denis
Publisher:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Imprint:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Dimensions:   Width: 25.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780892815579

ISBN 10:   0892815574
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 January 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy Spiritual & Cultural Transformation Among the Kalahari Ju'hoansi Acknowledgments Preface Meeting and Talking with People A Word of Caution Prologue Tell our Story to Your People Part 1 We've Always Been Here 1 We Used To Direct Ourselves 2 Now the Government Direct Us 3 But We Still Have Our Nom Part 2 Progress? 4 Hungry People are Easy to Coerce 5 The School Owns Our Dance 6 Does the Clinic Have Nom? 7 The People are Drinking the Meat Part 3 The Dynamics and Politics of Nom 8 Climbing the Threads to God's Village 9 Female and Male Approaches to Nom 10 Nom and Social Change Part 4 The Politics of Research and Ethics of Responsibility 11 Too Easy Entry? 12 Words and Voices 13 Call Me by My Ju'hoan Name Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Endnotes Glossary Bibliography Index About the Authors A Fund for the Ju'hoansi

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The researchers' sensitivity to the Ju/'hoansi, and their faithful commitment to the people's story or their own use as well as for Westerners, makes this book a rare treasure of integrity and knowledge preserved for all time. --Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and A Woman's Book of Life

The researchers' sensitivity to the Ju/'hoansi, and their faithful commitment to the people's story or their own use as well as for Westerners, makes this book a rare treasure of integrity and knowledge preserved for all time.

The researchers' sensitivity to the Ju/'hoansi, and their faithful commitment to the people's story or their own use as well as for Westerners, makes this book a rare treasure of integrity and knowledge preserved for all time. --Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and A Woman's Book of Life

Author Information

Richard Katz received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and taught there for twenty years. He is the author of Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung and The Straight Path: A Story of Healing and Transformation in Fiji. He is now a professor at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Saskatoon. Megan Biesele, an anthropologist and development worker in Austin, Texas, spends three months each year in the Kalahari as an educational consultant for the Ju/'hoansi. Verna St. Denis, a Cree Metis, is a professor of Indian and Northern education at the University of Saskatchewan.

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