hemes in the ethnography
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Your assignment is to summarize the following 3 (overlapping) themes in the ethnography:
a) What are Cree definitions or meanings of health? What does ?being alive well? mean and how is it
achieved?
b) What are the obstacles or threats to Cree understandings of health? What historical/social changes
threaten Cree understandings of health?
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c) How are Cree concepts of health political and how is resistance/opposition relevant? What is the
relationship between health and Cree identity? How is her ethnography applied to health issues?
In your conclusion, briefly discuss the following topic addressed in the Appendix: Reading Ethnography of
the Lavenda and Schultz text (p. 190): What critical or theoretical issues are addressed in the Adelson
ethnography? Most of this material is in chapter 1 of the Adelson book, in her discussion of concepts of
health. In the conclusion, also briefly discuss your reactions to the ethnography.
The paper must also integrate relevant concepts or ideas from the Lavenda and Schultz text. Briefly
discuss how these concepts are relevant to Adelson?s material. Does her use of these concepts differ
from the text?
For THEME 1, choose 2 of the following 4 concepts:
Religion, Animism (chapter 4 of Lavenda text)
Suffering (chapter 11 of Lavenda text)
Ethnoscience (chapter 12 of Lavenda text)
For THEME 2, choose 2 of the following 3 concepts:
Colonialism, (chapter 10 of Lavenda text)
Nutrition (chapter 11 of Lavenda text)
Douglas on pollution (chapter 12 of Lavenda text)
For THEME 3, chose 2 of the following 3 concepts:
Political ecology (chapter 8 of Lavenda text)
Cultural Rights (chapter 10 of Lavenda text)
New Directions/Colonialism (chapter 12 of Lavenda text)
These are minimum requirements. The more text concepts integrated, the better the paper.
To summarize: You must summarize the 3 themes listed above. Each of the 3 summaries must include a
minimum of 2 concepts from the Lavenda and Schultz text. Your conclusion must address the Appendix
material discussed above.
The total paper length should be about 7 pages, not including title pages and bibliography page. Papers
exceeding 7 pages will not be penalized. Each of the 3 theme discussions (including integrated Lavenda
and Schultz text concepts) should be about 2 pages. The conclusion should be about 1 page. Each of the 3
themes discussed must be clearly identified. How you organize each theme discussion is up to you.
Papers must be typed, stapled, double-spaced and with reasonable margins/font sizes (10 ? 12). Please
number your pages. On the title page put your name and student number. Referencing/citations are not
required for the Adelson material. Referencing/citations are required for the integrated Lavenda and
Schultz concepts. Example: (Lavenda and Schultz 2013: 70). You must also include a bibliography page
for both books. The bibliographic format is:
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Adelson, Naomi
2000 ?Being Alive Well?: Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being. University of Toronto Press.
Lavenda, Robert and Emily Schultz
2013 Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology. 6th edition. Oxford University Press.
Papers will be substantially downgraded for not addressing the assignment questions, for not using the
required number of text concepts, for sloppy referencing/citations and for poor grammar/spelling.