HLTH 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jeffery Amherst, 1St Baron Amherst, Attawapiskat River, Theresa Spence
20 Apr 2016
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Week 9: the colonial present indigeneity and health in canada. Finish our thoughts on sex/gender and other cultures. Understand impacts of colonialism on indigenous health, distinct from other forms of racism. Examine place and dispossession: an appreciation for why territoriality, self- determination, and place-in-the-world matter for indigenous health and well-being in. See some of the ways indigenous people are recovering health for themselves. Problem: a western social science epistemology (e. g. , how we know stuff) applied" to different worldview. 3rd genders in other cultures just adding another category to the binary: social + community roles: indigenous view. Gender-variant people aren"t associated with different sexual orientation. Cultural constructions are somatic (bodily: melanesia: semen exchange b/w boys + men, parallels transfer of milk from breast to infant. Social construction of sex/gender/orientation doesn"t just build around a pre-existing body, it also constructs the body itself. E. g. , bodily fluids + reproductive organs are also constructed", as well as behaviours and attitudes.
