Book
Medicine and politics among the Grand River Iroquois: a study of the non-conservatives
National Museums of Canada, National Museum of Man • (4) • Published In 1972 • Pages: [xiv], 182 [double-column]
By: Weaver, Sally M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of medical acculturation among the 3,000 non-conservative Christian Iroquois living on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada. Weaver attempts to determine the nature and extent of the non-conservative reliance on Western medical technology at both the family and community levels. Since the Six Nations Iroquois have been subject to the acculturative effects of White society for some time, it was expected that their medical beliefs and behavior would also reflect this acculturation. In large part this was found to be true, as documented in this work. Even though certain administrative policies of the Canadian government were extremely unpopular with non-conservatives during the 1950-1966 period, and evoked strong anti-government reactions, they nevertheless continued to make full use of all government established medical services during that period of crisis. Other topics discussed in this document are the non-conservative's knowledge of traditional herbal remedies, status differences in medical beliefs and practices, and the conflict situation that arose between 'elites' and the band Council when the former group attempted to alter community health standards (p. ix).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Status, role, and prestige
- Hospitals and clinics
- Preventive medicine
- Medical care
- Medical personnel
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iroquois
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1965 (p. xi-xii)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1966
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sally M. Weaver
- Originally published as the author's Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1967.
- Summary in French
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-182)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iroquois Indians