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An Ethnography of Stress

Part of the Culture, Mind, and Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230117228

ISBN: 978-1-349-29259-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 19, 2015

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Introduction: Using Social Determinants of Health, Using Ethnography

Burbank, Victoria Katherine

Pages: 1 –20

[In this book I “undertake the much more difficult task” set by Coyne and Downey of “identifying the complex and dynamic links” among life circumstances, experiences of stress, and their effects on lives and circumstances. Focusing on Numbulwar, a remote Aboriginal community in southeast Arnhem...
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At Numbulwar: Blackfellas and Whitefellas

Burbank, Victoria Katherine

Pages: 21 –55

[Numbulwar may be one of the most remote Indigenous communities in Australia. It has, since its establishment as Rose River Mission in 1952, been buffered, to a considerable extent, from settler culture by distance and a terrain of mangrove, eucalypt forest, bog, and sand not easily traversed,...
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Life History and Real Life: Fetal Origins of Disease, Ethnography, and History

Burbank, Victoria Katherine

Pages: 57 –78

[The relentless procession of illness, disability, death, and grief manifest at Numbulwar in recent years has compelled me to ask how this has happened to people whom I once saw as so vital. When and where did this plague of ill health begin? In a study where health and departures from health are...
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Feeling Bad: Everyday Stress

Burbank, Victoria Katherine

Pages: 79 –103

[Whitefellas visiting Numbulwar during the years of this study might, within a day or two, think they had identified a multitude of “harmful, threatening, or challenging conditions” (Lazarus 1999:36). The physical environment was one of noise and dirt. Signs of overuse and disrepair were...
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Identity

Burbank, Victoria Katherine

Pages: 105 –132

[There is much to suggest that our feelings about ourselves are implicated in our health (e.g., Demakakos et al. 2008; Dressler 1991a:618–19; Taylor and Stanton 2007:379–81, 384). Or, to rephrase this in the specific terms of my argument, I anticipate that people’s identity contents, depending on...
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Selves and Others

Burbank, Victoria Katherine

Pages: 133 –154

[Although she is speaking of Western Arrente “culture,” the words of Austin-Broos (1996) seem to apply equally well to describe a contemporary Aboriginal identity, or more precisely to anticipate this chapter’s focus, to facets of an Aboriginal self that may be widely shared at Numbulwar. It can...
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Conclusion: A Tentative Answer to a Fundamental Epidemiological Question

Burbank, Victoria Katherine

Pages: 155 –159

[This ethnography of stress has now reached a place where I can provide a tentative answer to what Agar (2003) describes as a “fundamental epidemiological question—why these people in this place at this time?” (3). This is clearly a question that the disproportionate incidence of premature...

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