![]() ![]() In many non-Western cultures, however, healing also and often especially is intended to repair damaged sociality, and associated feelings of social actors.” Is this so for Louise Erdrich’s Chippewa? Examples? Thus, “ Love Medicine“? Suggesting, perhaps, both that damaged love is the target of healing, and that enactment of love is the medicine that heals? (For superb unpacking of this idea in a very different cultural context – that of the !Kung, or Ju‘hoansi, of the Kalihari deserrt in Namibia - see Richard Katz, BOILING ENERGY: COMMUNITY HEALING AMONG THE KALIHARI KUNG and Richard Katz, Megan Biesele, & Verna St Denis, HEALING MAKES OUR HEARTS HAPPY.)Ģ) “In lives, feelings, emotions always commingle. 1) “For many of us, conventionally, healing is intended to alleviate disease, as Western biomedicine understands disease. ![]()
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