Results for "Lefler, Ph.D. Lisa J."

Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues  Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia is the result of almost two decades of work by medical anthropologist Lisa J. Lefler and Cherokee elder and... Read More about Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia

Provides a balanced portrait of Cherokee health issues For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the world is to be neutral, balanced, with a simi... Read More about Under the Rattlesnake: Cherokee Health and Resiliency (Contemporary American Indian Studies)

Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues  Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia is the result of almost two decades of work by medical anthropologist Lisa J. Lefler and Cherokee elder and... Read More about Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002  A clear assessment of the growing mutual respect and strengthening bond between modern Native Americans and the researchers who explore their past   Southern Indians have experienced much change in the last half of the 20th century. In rapid succ... Read More about Anthropologists and Indians in the New South (Contemporary American Indian Studies)