Donald Pollock
Biographic Data
| ID | 83522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Pollock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollock |
| SIGNATURE | POLLOCK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6604-0609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Peccaries and the dialectics of desire among the Kulina
I pursue the paradoxical values of siblingship and affinity among the Kulina through notions of a cyclical past/present and a directional present/future, in which the white-lipped peccary is an element in a cycle of past and present siblingship which jaguar spirits disrupt to create the possibilities of a future through affines.
Spanish adaptation of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS)
The death of a baby in the perinatal period is considered a disenfranchized grief that can be a source of significant symptoms of guilt, shame, and stigma. There is a lack of validated instruments for assessing the stigma associated with perinatal grief. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties (factor structure, reliability, and validity) of the Spanish version of the Stillbirth Stigma Scale (SSS) in parents who have expe…
Recommendations for the extraction, analysis, and presentation of results in scoping reviews
Scoping reviewers often face challenges in the extraction, analysis, and presentation of scoping review results. Using best-practice examples and drawing on the expertise of the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group and an editor of a journal that publishes scoping reviews, this paper expands on existing JBI scoping review guidance. The aim of this article is to clarify the process of extracting data from different sources of evidence; discuss wha…
Scoping review of nature-based interventions in bereavement care: What are the implications for perinatal loss
Perinatal bereavement, the death of a baby before or around the time of birth, is profoundly distressing and associated with significant psychosocial consequences for parents and families. There is a need for diverse support options for bereaved parents that recognises their continuum of needs, preferences and circumstances. Nature-based interventions have potential as a non-clinical approach drawing on “natural assets” within everyday settings. …
Conversion and “Community” in Amazonia
What are scoping reviews? Providing a formal definition of scoping reviews as a type of evidence synthesis
Evidence synthesis encompasses a broad range of review types, and scoping reviews are an increasingly popular approach to synthesizing evidence in a number of fields. They sit alongside other evidence synthesis methodologies, such as systematic reviews, qualitative evidence synthesis, realist synthesis, and many more. Until now, scoping reviews have been variously defined in the literature. In this article, we provide the following formal definit…
Best practice guidance and reporting items for the development of scoping review protocols
Subjectivité droguée, altérité intoxicante: Consommation rituelle de substances psychoactives chez les Madija
Cet article explore l’usage de substances psychoactives par une communauté d’Autochtones madijas (aussi appelés Kulina) du Brésil occidental. Je suggère que l’intoxication des Madija au moyen de l’alcool, du tabac et de l’ayahuasca se comprend mieux si elle est conçue comme une forme d’appropriation sémiotique de l’identité cosmologique des « autres », incluant des esprits animaliers, des êtres créateurs, d’autres groupes autochtones et des Brési…
Undertaking a scoping review: A practical guide for nursing and midwifery students, clinicians, researchers, and academics
Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity
Thomas Alberts offers a deeply researched and insightful take on shamans and shamanism, in particular the “homogenizing universalism” that has generalized the image of the shaman and the diffuse set of practices and beliefs we now call “shamanism” in Western discourse on indigenous identity (58). Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity does not pursue an ethnography of shamanism so much as, first, a kind of Foucauldian archaeology of the concept and, sec…
Drugged Subjectivity, Intoxicating Alterity
This article explores the use of intoxicants by a community of Kulina Indians in western Brazil. I suggest that Kulina intoxication through alcohol, tobacco, and ayahuasca is best understood as a form of semiotic appropriation of the identity of cosmological "others," including animal spirits, creator beings, other Indian groups, and Brazilians. I consider how embodying practices, such as song and physical movement, enhance the experience of bein…
Wright, Robin M: Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon
Anthropos , Seite 354 - 355
Community Engagement and Science: Prospects and Provocations: Critical Commentary on Peter C. Little's “Negotiating Community Engagement and Science in the Federal Environmental Public Health Sector”
Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It - by Robert Borofsky
Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century
Book review of Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century. John Hemming. London: Pan Macmillan, 2003. xxxiv + 855pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, references, index. ISBN:1-4050-0095-3
Siblings and Sorcerers: The Paradox of Kinship among the Kulina
Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers
Book review of Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers. Paul Little. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xv + 298 pp., glossary, notes, field interviews, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8018-6661-8
Regionalism and Cultural Identity in Western Amazonia
In this I article examine some of the processes by which new representational strategies are being developed by indigenous communities in western Brazil. While language has long been a marker of identity among indigenous groups, more recent political and economic forces have led to the emergence of forms of identity that transcend traditional language differences. Regionality, for example, has become a potent conceptual field for new forms of ide…
Being Alive Well: Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being
Being Alive Well": Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being. Naomi Adelson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix. 141 pp
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience. Cheryl Mattingly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 192 pp
Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil
Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil. 1999. 52 minutes, color. video by Schecter Films/Smithsonian. For more information contact the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560
The social construction of medical metaphor
Yanomami Warfare: A Political History
Authors' Responses to Commentaries
Training Tales: U.S. Medical Autobiography
Masks and the Semiotics of Identity
Anthropological approaches to masks and masking typically consider the meaning and symbolism of masks, and the social functions of masking ritual. This article considers how masks are able to perform such work, through a semiotic perspective that treats masks as icons and indexes of identity. Such a framework also broadens the category of 'mask' to include other signalling systems which may be called upon by the semiotics of identity in any parti…
Personhood and Illness among the Kulina
This article offers both a contribution to the ethnography of ethnomedicine among the Kulina Indians of western Amazonia-a region in which there has been little ethnomedical research-and an extended illustration of the value of the concept of "personhood" in the analysis of ethnomedical beliefs and practices. I argue that the current medical anthropological fixation on the Body is neither good ethnography nor productive theory, and I use the Kuli…
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space
Food and sexual identity among the Culina
1985). Food and sexual identity among the Culina. Food and Foodways: Vol. 1, No. 1-2, pp. 25-41
Death and the Afterdeath among the Kulina
Barriers to physician-nurse collegiality: An anthropological perspective
Yanomami Warfare: A Political History
Training Tales: U.S. Medical Autobiography
Drugged Subjectivity, Intoxicating Alterity
This article explores the use of intoxicants by a community of Kulina Indians in western Brazil. I suggest that Kulina intoxication through alcohol, tobacco, and ayahuasca is best understood as a form of semiotic appropriation of the identity of cosmological "others," including animal spirits, creator beings, other Indian groups, and Brazilians. I consider how embodying practices, such as song and physical movement, enhance the experience of bein…
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience. Cheryl Mattingly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 192 pp
Healing Dilemmas
Subjectivité droguée, altérité intoxicante: Consommation rituelle de substances psychoactives chez les Madija
Cet article explore l’usage de substances psychoactives par une communauté d’Autochtones madijas (aussi appelés Kulina) du Brésil occidental. Je suggère que l’intoxication des Madija au moyen de l’alcool, du tabac et de l’ayahuasca se comprend mieux si elle est conçue comme une forme d’appropriation sémiotique de l’identité cosmologique des « autres », incluant des esprits animaliers, des êtres créateurs, d’autres groupes autochtones et des Brési…
Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers
Book review of Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers. Paul Little. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xv + 298 pp., glossary, notes, field interviews, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8018-6661-8
Being Alive Well: Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being
Being Alive Well": Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being. Naomi Adelson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix. 141 pp
Structured ambiguity and the definition of psychiatric illness: Adjustment disorder among medical inpatients
Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It - by Robert Borofsky
Desire and craving: A cultural theory of alcoholism
Food and sexual identity among the Culina
1985). Food and sexual identity among the Culina. Food and Foodways: Vol. 1, No. 1-2, pp. 25-41
Barriers to physician-nurse collegiality: An anthropological perspective
Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class In Inca and Colonial Peru
Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class In Inca and Colonial Peru. IRENE SILVERBLATT. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. 305 pp., bibliography, Index, $39.50 (cloth) ISBN 0‐691‐07726‐6; $14.50 (paper) ISBN 0‐691‐02258‐5
Moon, Sun, and Witches: Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class In Inca and Colonial Peru
The Cultures of Medicine . Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi and Robert W. Daly
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Nation-States and Indians in Latin America . Greg Urban , Joel Sherzer
Linguistic Anthropology: A Discourse‐Centered Approach to Culture: Native South American Myths and Rituals . Greg Urban. Texas Linguistics Series
Structured ambiguity and the definition of psychiatric illness: Adjustment disorder among medical inpatients
CHAPTER SIX. Conversion and "Community" in Amazonia
Death and the Afterdeath among the Kulina
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Histoire de Lynx. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Applied Anthropology: Development or Destruction: The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America. Theodore E. Downing, Susanna B. Hecht, Henry A. Pearson , Carmen Garcia
Nurturing Doubt: From Mennonite Missionary to Anthropologist in the Argentine Chaco:Nurturing Doubt: From Mennonite Missionary to Anthropologist in the Argentine Chaco
Nurturing Doubt: From Mennonite Missionary to Anthropologist in the Argentine Chaco
Nurturing Doubt: From Mennonite Missionary to Anthropologist in the Argentine Chaco. Elmer S. Miller Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 225 pp., bibliography, index. $44.95 (cloth), $17.50 (paper). ISBN 0‐252‐02155‐X, ISBN 0‐252‐06455‐0
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Foreign Bodies: Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology. A. David Napier
Desire and craving: A cultural theory of alcoholism
Two Evenings in Saramaka. Richard PRICE and Sally PRICE
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine. Mark Nichter
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space
Masks and the Semiotics of Identity
Anthropological approaches to masks and masking typically consider the meaning and symbolism of masks, and the social functions of masking ritual. This article considers how masks are able to perform such work, through a semiotic perspective that treats masks as icons and indexes of identity. Such a framework also broadens the category of 'mask' to include other signalling systems which may be called upon by the semiotics of identity in any parti…
Authors' Responses to Commentaries
Training Tales: U.S. Medical Autobiography
Healing Dilemmas
Personhood and Illness among the Kulina
This article offers both a contribution to the ethnography of ethnomedicine among the Kulina Indians of western Amazonia-a region in which there has been little ethnomedical research-and an extended illustration of the value of the concept of "personhood" in the analysis of ethnomedical beliefs and practices. I argue that the current medical anthropological fixation on the Body is neither good ethnography nor productive theory, and I use the Kuli…
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