Illness is a weapon : indigenous identity and enduring afflictions / Eirik Saethre, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

"Presents the everyday experience of disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Explores the factors structuring ill health, the tactics individuals use to negotiate these realities, and the ways in which sickness is invoked to construct, manage, and challenge race relations"--Pr...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Saethre, Eirik
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Aboriginal Australians > Health and hygiene. Aboriginal Australians > Medical care.