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A Different Medicine

- Postcolonial Healing in the Native American Church

About A Different Medicine

Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC).

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780199927845
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 254
  • Published:
  • July 18, 2013
  • Dimensions:
  • 157x235x17 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 336 g.
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Expected delivery: October 3, 2024

Description of A Different Medicine

Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC).

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