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Indigenous elder insights about conventional care services in Alaska
— culturally charged spaces | | Author(s) | Jean E Balestrery |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 59, no 4, May-June 2016 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, May-June 2016 |
| Pages | pp 296-315 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Native Americans ; Attitude ; Services ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Indigenous peoples around the world endure health and social disparities. In the United States, such disparities are typically ameliorated through conventional care services and organisations. This ethnographic multi-site study was conducted over 12 months of fieldwork across urban, rural and remote village sites in Alaska, to examine points of tension that characterise culturally pluralistic care services in the United States, specifically Alaska, within context of Indigenous colonial histories. This work incorporates relational and participatory action research principles with Alaska Native Elders. Ethnographic evidence was collected through multiple methods, including field notes, documents and interviews, with ethnographic analysis involving atlas.ti. Alaska Native Elders describe salient points of tension that characterise Alaska's conventional care services through the following insights: generational curses - a pain; prejudice on both sides - wounded; and value-systems clash - fighting. This article concludes with discussion about collective anxieties and implications for care services. This is one of four articles in this issue of Journal of Gerontological Social Work which focus on indigenous Elders. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170120225 A |
| Classmark | TK: TKH: DP: I: 3DP: 7T |
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