Overview

Through storytelling, ethnography, and interviews, Heritage in the Body examines the links between health and heritage in times of change. Using a series of case studies, anthropologist Kristina Baines tells the intimate stories of how Indigenous Maya and Garifuna Belizeans—both in Belize and in the United States—navigate macro-level processes such as economic development, climate change, political shifts, and global health crises in the context of changes in their own lives. Employing an embodied ecological heritage (EEH) framework, Baines explores the links between health and heritage as a fluid series of ecological practices. Health and wellness are holistically defined and approached from a phenomenological perspective. Baines focuses on how sensory experiences change the body through practice and provides insights into community-driven alternatives as a means to maintain and support happy, healthy lives.

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"""This innovative text by Kristina Baines skillfully illuminates the role that traditional cultural practices play in maintaining the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in the contexts of modernization, immigration, racism and discrimination, and climate change. Baines argues that rather than being a burden to overcome, embodied ecological heritage is an asset to promote and maintain health and well-being in the Anthropocene. In doing so, the text makes a compelling argument for the importance of maintaining traditional cultural and heritage practices in a world of increasingly tumultuous change and violent disruption.""--James Stinson, York University"

“This innovative text by Kristina Baines skillfully illuminates the role that traditional cultural practices play in maintaining the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in the contexts of modernization, immigration, racism and discrimination, and climate change. Baines argues that rather than being a burden to overcome, embodied ecological heritage is an asset to promote and maintain health and well-being in the Anthropocene. In doing so, the text makes a compelling argument for the importance of maintaining traditional cultural and heritage practices in a world of increasingly tumultuous change and violent disruption.”—James Stinson, York University

Author Information

Kristina Baines is an associate professor of anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Guttman Community College, affiliated faculty at the CUNY Graduate School of Health and Health Policy, and the co-editor of Cool Anthropology.

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