Revenge of the Windigo
Subtitle: The Construction of the Mind and Mental health of North American Aboriginal Peoples
By: James B. Waldram.
Series: Anthropological horizons
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Psychology.; Indians of North America -- Mental health.; Ethnopsychology -- History.; Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord -- Psychologie.; Indiens -- Amérique du Nord -- Santé mentale.; Ethnopsychologie -- Histoire.
Description: Discusses our knowledge of Aboriginal mental health: who generates it; how it is generated and communicated; and what has been - and continues to be - its implications for Aboriginal peoples. The author undertakes an exhaustive examination of three disciplines - anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry - and reveals how together they have constructed a gravely distorted portrait of 'the Aboriginal.' Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-391) and index.