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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Indigenous healing"”.
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Integrating Indigenous Cultural Values and Sustainable Architecture for Healing and Empowerment.
This study delves into integrating Indigenous cultural values, traditional healing practices, and sustainable architecture to create a comprehensive framework for fostering healing, reconciliation, and empowerment among homeless and vulnerable Indigenous populations in Calgary, Canada. The study …
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A phenomenological study of healing in a North Sotho community
… to: (a). conduct an inquiry into the process of indigenous healing as conceptualized by a group of North Sotho indigenous healers, and (b). to interpret these subjective representations of a healing process so as to develop ideas regarding the links between indigenous healing and modem medicine …
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Socio Cultural and Philosophical Importance of Rituals in Traditional Medicine: Focus on HIV And AIDS Treatment in the Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
Indigenous healing is largely holistic in its approach. When a patient consults with a headache or a painful knee, there would be a deliberate intent on the part of the healer to look at the entire body and its relation to the environment, ancestors, and spiritual aspects. However, this approach is …
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Inspiration for Healing and Reclaiming Cultural Wellness and the Spirit of Indigeneity in a Colonial “Canadian” Context
Colonization has profoundly disrupted Indigenous people; it affects a person’s wellness, culture, traditions, governance, families, health, lands, and all one’s relations. While there is a plethora of research focused on decolonization, limited research features personal decolonization in …
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Aba té Home: Journey to Robben Island
… an alternative perspective, that is rooted in indigenous sensibilities (Harris, 2002:84). As an artist, stories prompt my encounter with new perspectives. Therefore, this story offers a window into the elements of my community's storytelling practices and how they have come to shape my …
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Treatment as a Common Good: Adopting HIV/AIDS Policy in Russia and South Africa, 1999-2008
… supported substandard biomedical treatments and indigenous healing practices, consistently resisted the universal and free rollout of treatment in order to avoid the undesirable governmental expenditures and redistributive strategies. In both countries, these policy choices resulted in the …
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Becoming grounded to grow: A model of traditional spiritual healing/care in the everyday context
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Warriors and Healers of the Eastern Band of Cherokee: Peoplehood, Survivance, and Military Service in World War I (1917-1924)
… warriors during World War I, emphasizing Indigenous agency, cultural survival, and community within a settler-colonial framework. It explores how these warriors navigated military service as both an assertion of sovereignty and a means of survival, using their enlistment to resist colonial …
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Te ahi tawhito, te ahi tipua, te ahi nā Mahuika: Re-igniting native women’s ceremony
… ceremony, old and new, threads into decolonising Indigenous scholarship around the world that also seeks to recover the sacred feminine as a key site of Native sovereignty. These discussions reveal a self-renewing Native belief system based on vibrant and evolving rituals that respond directly to …