Chapter Seven. The Cosmology of Nature, Cultural Divergence, and the Metaphysics of Community Healing

Tanner, Adrian; Clammer, John; Poirier, Sylvie; Schwimmer, Eric

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“…71 Thinking about the person as fundamentally connected to the environment dissolves the opposition between nature and culture. 72 The human predicament then becomes one of working with powerful forces both within and outside the individual. Approached with respect, the natural environment provides not only sustenance but also sources of soothing, emotion regulation, guidance, and healing.…”

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Rethinking Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives

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The notions of resilience that have emerged in developmental psychology and psychiatry in recent years require systematic rethinking to address the distinctive cultures, geographic and social settings, and histories of adversity of indigenous peoples. In Canada, the overriding social realities of indigenous peoples include their historical rootedness to a specific place (with traditional lands, communities, and transactions with the environment) and the profound displacements caused by colonization and subsequent loss of autonomy, political oppression, and bureaucratic control. We report observations from an ongoing collaborative project on resilience in Inuit, Métis, Mi'kmaq, and Mohawk communities that suggests the value of incorporating indigenous constructs in resilience research. These constructs are expressed through specific stories and metaphors grounded in local culture and language; however, they can be framed more generally in terms of processes that include: regulating emotion and supporting adaptation through relational, ecocentric, and cosmocentric concepts of self and personhood; revisioning collective history in ways that valorize collective identity; revitalizing language and culture as resources for narrative self-fashioning, social positioning, and healing; and renewing individual and collective agency through political activism, empowerment, and reconciliation. Each of these sources of resilience can be understood in dynamic terms as emerging from interactions between individuals, their communities, and the larger regional, national, and global systems that locate and sustain indigenous agency and identity. This social-ecological view of resilience has important implications for mental health promotion, policy, and clinical practice.

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“…People understand themselves to be in constant transaction and exchange with animals and other living creatures as well as with the landscape. The notion of personhood encompasses nonhuman persons, including animals and the elements, which have their own perspectives, motives, and agency (Hallowell, 1955;Tanner, 2004). In shamanism, a system of healing associated with this cultural system, healers derive their powers from animal helpers, who allow the healer to restore the necessary balance and reciprocity between the afflicted person and the natural world (Vitebsky, 2001).…”

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Psychotherapy and the Cultural Concept of the Person

Kirmayer

2007

Transcult Psychiatry

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Psychotherapies are distinguished from other forms of symbolic healing by their emphasis on explicit talk about the self. Every system of psychotherapy thus depends on implicit models of the self, which in turn, are based on cultural concepts of the person. The cultural concept of the person that underwrites most forms of psychotherapy is based on Euro-American values of individualism. This individualistic and egocentric concept of the person can be contrasted with more sociocentric, ecocentric or cosmocentric views, which understand the person in relation to the social world, the environment, and the cosmos. Intercultural psychotherapy must consider the cultural concept of the person implicit in therapeutic discourse and practice to determine how well it fits or conflicts with the concepts, values and way of life of the patient.

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“…Consequently, time and autonomy are highly significant in Cree culture. Moreover, all persons (animals are considered as non-human persons) have a specific autonomy [30] that corresponds to the way they interact with other beings reciprocally [31][32][33][34][35]. This complex meaning of individual autonomy allows us to look at particular dimensions of taking care of ourselves, depending on the person's social role.…”

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Anthropological perspectives on Miyupimaatisiiun and the integration of oral health in primary care in the Cree communities of Northern Quebec

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The integration of primary oral health care has a pivotal role in improving oral health outcomes and providing accessible and affordable health care. This article contributes to the deep understanding of the cultural aspects of the integration of oral health into primary health care at an Indigenous health organization. Proceeding from a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project evaluating the integration of oral health care within primary care in Eeyou Istchee, this research is based on group discussions (6) and individual interviews (36) with 74 participants (care providers, administrators, and patients) held in four Eastern James Bay Cree communities. This study anthropologically explored participants' perceptions about primary health care conceptualizations, culturally based approaches, and experiences of oral care services at this organization using a "two-eyed seeing" Indigenous framework. The study identified three key factors related to the integration of primary oral health care: Cree perception of primary health and oral health care, cultural safety, and health provider-patient communication and the role of silence. Study findings reflected a dichotomy of perception of primary health care and the relevant units of care between the Cree structural and cultural perspective and the non-Cree professional perspective. The Cree people perceived "household" as a unit of care in comparison to non-Cree who viewed "health care services" as units of care. Our results also underline the role of cultural safety agents to address the needs for cultural competence and the role of silence as implicit cultural protocol. Our anthropological analysis illustrates the potential for increasing the level of appreciation for both users and workers in oral care in the future by ameliorating communication skills and intercultural knowledge.

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Chapter Seven. The Cosmology of Nature, Cultural Divergence, and the Metaphysics of Community Healing

Cited by 21 publications

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Rethinking Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives

Rethinking Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives

Psychotherapy and the Cultural Concept of the Person

Anthropological perspectives on Miyupimaatisiiun and the integration of oral health in primary care in the Cree communities of Northern Quebec

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