Overview
- Combines social scientific disciplines (Sociology, Anthropology, and Auto/ethnography) with Indigenous methodologies and scholarship, bridging the communication gap between Indigenous and Western scholars and scholarships
- Examines the complex issues of Indigenous health and well-being, demonstrating how these intersect with other and everyday facets of Indigenous life
- Chapters open with an Indigenous autoethnography or reflection that introduces the studied issues, including the environment, the sacred and religion, social organization, language, health, and more
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lavonna L. Lovern is Professor at Valdosta State University, USA, where she teaches philosophy and religious studies and Native American and Indigenous studies. She has published on American Indian issues in health and disability, including a previous book with Dr. Locust entitled Native American Communities on Health and Disability: Borderland Dialogues (2013). Recent publications also include Fostering a Climate of Inclusion in the College Classroom: The Missing Voice of the Humanities (2018), “Indigenous Perspectives on Difference: A Case for Inclusion” (2017, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies), and Critical Pedagogy for Native American Education Policy: Habermas, Freire, and Emancipatory Education (2015, co-authored with F.E. Knowles).
With contributions by Carol Locust, EdD
Carol Locust, EdD, is Eastern Cherokee. She has worked with various tribes throughout her career, traveling internationally to speak to Indigenous issues of health, disability, and education. Dr. Locust’s publications include Native American Communities on Health and Disability: Borderland Dialogues (2013, co-authored with Lavonna L. Lovern) and “Wounding the Spirit: Discrimination and Traditional American Indian Belief Systems” (1988, Harvard Educational Review). Dr. Locust is now retired from the University of Arizona, USA, where she was affiliated with the Native American Cardiology Unit.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Indigenous Communities
Book Subtitle: Historical and Contemporary Issues in Indigeneity
Authors: Lavonna L. Lovern
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69937-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69936-9Published: 16 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69937-6Published: 15 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 290
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Sociology, general, Ethnography, Sociology of Education, Cross Cultural Psychology, Religious Studies, general