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Native American Postcolonial Psychology

Book information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0791423530, 9780791423530
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14712798 bytes)
Series
SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
Pages
125\246
Time added
2021-01-27 12:39:04

Description

This book shows that it is necessary to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand Native Americans today. It makes native American ways of conceptualizing the world available to readers. This book presents a theoretical discussion of problems and issues encountered in the Native American community from a perspective that accepts Native knowledge as legitimate. Native American cosmology and metaphor are used extensively in order to deal with specific problems such as alcoholism, suicide, family, and community problems. The authors discuss what it means to present material from the perspective of a people who have legitimate ways of knowing and conceptualizing reality and show that it is imperative to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand the issues facing Native Americans today.

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