URL

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cwhbc/detail.action?docID=6475884

Author

Downe, Pamela

Place of Publication

Toronto, ON

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Publication Date

2021

Physical Description

171p.

Subject

Indigenous

Aboriginal Health

Motherhood

HIV/AIDS

Abstract

Collective Care provides an ethnographic account of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewan's HIV epidemic. Based on a five-year study conducted in partnership with AIDS Saskatoon, the book focuses on the contrast between Indigenous values of collective kin-care and non-Indigenous models of intensive maternal care. It explores how women and men negotiate the forces of HIV to render motherhood a site of cultural meaning, personal and collective well-being, and, sometimes, individual and community despair. It also introduces readers to how HIV is Indigenized in western Canada and how all HIV-affected and -infected mothers must negotiate this cultural and racialized terrain. Featuring in-depth narrative interviews, notes from participant observation in AIDS Saskatoon's drop-in centre, and a photovoice component, this book offers an accessible account of an engaged anthropologist's work with a community that is both vulnerable and resilient. Each chapter begins with an ethnographic vignette that introduces central concepts, including medical anthropology, syndemics, kinship, and Indigeneity, with the overall aim of humanizing those affected by HIV in western Canada and beyond.

ISBN

9781487587666

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Call Number

GN 400 DOW 2021

Author

Cottin, Menena

Faria, Rosana

Amado, Elisa (Translator)

Place of Publication

[Toronto, ON]

Publisher

Groundwood Books

Publication Date

2008

Physical Description

Hardcover: [21 p.]

Subject

Picture Books

Braille

Vision/Vision Disorders. Visual Impairments

Visual Impairment

Abstract

Written in braille and text. It is very hard for a sighted person to imagine what it is like to be blind. This award-winning book endeavors to convey the experience of a person who can only see through his or her sense of touch, taste, smell or hearing. Raised black line drawings on black paper accompany a beautifully written text describing colors through imagery.

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

BRAILLE JUNIOR FH 300 COT 2008

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