Cover; Contents; Preface: Hard to Swallow: The Challenge of Radical Cultural Differences; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: Anthropological and Clinical Orientations; 1. Introduction: Peyote, Cultural Paradigm Clash, and the Multiplicity of the Normal; 2. Expanding Our Conceptualization of the Therapeutic: Toward a Suitable Theoretical Framework for the Study of Cultural Psychiatries; 3. Clinical Ethnography: Clinically Informed Self-Reflective Immersion in Local Worlds of Suffering, Healing, and Well-Being; PART TWO: Cultural and Personal Healing in the Native American Church
4. The Unfolding Cultural Paradigm Clash: Ritual Peyote Use and the Struggle for Postcolonial Healing in North America5. Medicine and Spirit: The Dual Nature of Peyote; 6. The Peyote Ceremony: Psychopharmacology, Ritual Process, and Experiences of Healing; 7. Kinship, Socialization, and Ritual in Navajo Peyotist Families; 8. Postcolonial Hybridity and Ritual Bureaucracy in New Mexico: Participant Observation in a Navajo Peyotist Healer's Clinical Program; 9. Decolonizing Our Understandings of the Normal and the Therapeutic; Notes; References; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M
In 'A Different Medicine', Joseph Calabrese presents a case study that challenges many deeply ingrained cultural assumptions and attempts to mediate a centuries-old clash of cultural paradigms. The book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of a postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church. Calabrese argues against the War on Drugs and the Supreme Court decision that jeopardized the right of Native Americans to use this medicine. He urges us to recognize the multiplicity of the normal and the therapeutic
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index
