The arts of Indigenous health and well-being. [online electronic book]

The arts of Indigenous health and well-being. [online electronic book]

Publication Date
2021

Subject Term
Electronic books.
 
Arts medicine.
 
Medicine and art.
 
Indigenous art -- Canada.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Health and hygiene -- Canada.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social life and customs.
 
Arts -- Therapeutic use.

Additional Contributors
Van Styvendale, Nancy, 1976-
 
McDougall, J. D.
 
Henry, Robert, 1980-
 
Innes, Robert Alexander.

Summary
Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the "good life", or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. In this interdisciplinary collection, Indigenous knowledges inform an approach to health as a wider set of relations that are central to well-being, wherein artistic expression furthers cultural continuity and resilience, community connection, and kinship to push back against forces of fracture and disruption imposed by colonialism.

Language
English

ISBN
9780887559419


LibraryCollectionCollectionStatus
Provincial Public LibrariesElectronic BookElectronic BookElectronic record