therapies‚ use of health foods‚ and advice from shamans (spiritual folk healers). Mental illness hospitals are seldom checked into and psychotropic drugs are rarely prescribed. The treatments are similar when it comes to marital problems: talking outside the family is a foreign concept. Being Catholic‚ the belief of "until death do you part" and for the sake of keeping the family united to avoid shame. Aging treatments includes advice from shamans along with a diet adjusted to natural
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Culture shapes our character‚ personality‚ and behavior. The culture influence our concept of right and wrong‚ define what is appropriate and acceptable‚ and forge our moral‚ values‚ traditions‚ and beliefs. Imigration impacts the individual behavior based on the effect of culture in our behavior. When a person imigrate‚ the individual does not only expose itself to a different environment but to a different culture with its own set of rules and values. This change provoke an conflict caused by the
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1. The Socio-cultural Context of Huichol Tribe Climate & location: The Huichol are a Native American tribe in central northwest Mexico. The area has a temperate climate with humid summers. They live mostly in the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains. Ranchos: They live in cultural units called “ranchos” which consist of a few nuclear families that live and farm in the same area. Farming: Huichol are subsistence farmers who mainly depend on maize crops and occasionally raise livestock (i.e. Cattle)
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In many cultures around the world people have the same problems to face as we do. They just refer to them by different words and or different meanings. In “The Spirit Catches You‚” a young girl by the name of Lia has a condition that Western Medicine considers to be epilepsy‚ but in her culture of the Hmong they believe it to be qaug dab peg. Some might consider these two conditions of the body and soul to be the same thing or quite different. Western medicine’s way of dealing with the issue is
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The two cultures 1. Do you think the author was evenhanded in her presentation of Hmong culture and medical culture? I absolutely believe that the author was evenhanded in her presentation of the two cultures. Throughout the book it was clear that she tried to look at everything from as many perspectives as possible to accurately portray the Hmong culture and medical culture. 3. Over the centuries‚ the Hmong fought against many different peoples who claimed sovereignty over their lands. What
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The Haida People of the Canadian Northwest Coast By Shyann Gilmour The Haida people had an extremely complex social organization. They were highly respected by their peers and those they traded with and were feared by those who were at war with them. Their art continues to flourish today and many traditions have survived into today’s world. The Natives of the Northwest Coast have been a group of Natives with the worlds attention‚ while some may stay to look at museum exhibits concerning the
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During the 19th century‚ there were open fields filled with plants and animals roaming through them. The plants that grew in the different fields were mushrooms (caused hallucinations)‚ yellow-orange fruits‚ coca leaves (cocaine)‚ poppy plants (opium)‚ and cannabis plants (marijuana); the animals were observed as they roamed the fields and ate from these plants. As the humans watched the animal’s behavior during and after eating the plants‚ they began to wonder as to how and why the animal’s demeanor
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Artemis studied Medicine Wheel of Americas in Four Winds Society. She had received the Munay-Ki rites‚ and‚ works with Q’ero lineage of Inca shamans. Artemis has been giving Illuminations since 2009. Artemis has been a seer since her childhood and‚ lives in the Ceremony in her daily life. An Illumination is a shamanic healing modality of an imprint removal from the Energy Body. Energy body surrounds all living beings; it holds the past and current life information; manifests and continuously informs
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ticking along. This has been going on for a very very long time and nothing has ever broken this cycle. Until now. At the end of the last age‚ which was a kind of primal‚ cave painting/tribal drumming age of blood and stone‚ the last great shaman refused to die out along with the rest of his people and hung on and on‚ surviving the end of his age and the birth of the next one‚ his name... Lord Root. He is the only thing in the world that isn’t meant to be and as a result he is able to bend
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this plants connects shaman to the sprits they are trying to reach. Castaneda was introduced to Peyote that connected him to the spirt Mescalito who was a teacher‚ but in order to connect with him he had to take something from the Mother Earth to be connected with this spirit. Shaman believe that Mother Earth is how they can connect with the ordinary world because she proves them with the ingredients they need to connect with their spirits. The plants aren’t they only thing shaman use from the ordinary
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