Book
Chippewa preoccupation with health: change in a traditional attitude resulting from modern health problems
[s.n.] • 19 (4) • Published In 1953 • Pages: 175-257
By: Ritzenthaler, Robert Eugene.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This reprint of a lengthy article is divided into three parts: 1) descriptions of actual practices of preventing and curing sickness, 2) incidence of diseases, especially tuberculosis, and 3) health anxieties among the North American Indians as a whole. Thirteen illustrations and three appendices of mortality records accompany the main text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Preventive medicine
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical therapy
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Samuel C. Chu
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1941, 1942, 1944
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1941, 1942, 1944 (summers)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lac Court Oreilles Reservation, Wisconsin, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert E. Ritzenthaler
- Health anxieties among the North American Indians as a whole has been filed in N-03 American Indians File.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-257)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54003371
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians