Temporal constructs and inuit mental health
| Autor: | Laird Christie, Joel Halpern |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Canada
medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Population Community integration Indigenous History and Philosophy of Science Human settlement medicine Humans Social Change education education.field_of_study Cultural Characteristics Arctic Regions Public health Perspective (graphical) Commerce History 20th Century Mental health Alcoholism Mental Health Geography Arctic Inuit Ethnology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine. 30:739-749 |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| Popis: | This paper suggests that changes in temporal constructs and disjunctures between the ‘technical time’ perspective of Canadian Arctic settlements and the indigenous cyclical and linear temporal orientation of Inuit peoples relate to increasing incidence of psycho- and sociopathologies in these communities. It argues that loss of community integration through the replacement of Inuit historical linear time perspectives by Eurocanadian settlement history, and dissociation from the land and its seasonally cyclical migratory and exploitive patterns are of particular significance for the younger, settlement-born, temporally marginalized Inuit who constitute the highest risk population for mental ill-health. |
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