I choose life
Subtitle: contemporary medical and religious practices in the Navajo world
By: Maureen Trudelle Schwarz.
Series: New directions in Native American studies -- v. 2
Publisher: Norman; University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University of Oklahoma Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780806139418; 9780806139616
Subjects: Navajo Indians -- Medicine; Navajo Indians -- Religion; Surgery; Traditional medicine -- Southwest, New; Christianity and other religions -- Shamanism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Groundings; title: Christianity, biomedicine, and the Native American church; title: The politics and language of well-being; title: Sources of pathosis; title: The exchange of life substances; title: Surgery and disposal of body parts; title: Transplants; title: Closing thoughts.