Turning Cancer into Medicine: Storying Healing through Imagery
This Photo Essay explores my experience with cancer and healing using Indigenous traditional medicines. I use Photo First Voice, a form of auto-ethnography, to story my ‘living’ experience with cancer, which includes getting in touch with and honouring my Indigenous roots (Algonquin/French) attendin...
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| description | This Photo Essay explores my experience with cancer and healing using Indigenous traditional medicines. I use Photo First Voice, a form of auto-ethnography, to story my ‘living’ experience with cancer, which includes getting in touch with and honouring my Indigenous roots (Algonquin/French) attending healing ceremonies, and becoming an Oshkaabewis (a healer’s helper) myself. I integrate photographic images into this essay to illustrate my experiences and to enhance the meaning of the words I have committed to these pages. Each image represents a different aspect or level of knowledge and healing. These images and text are followed by a discussion in which I weave fragments of experience together to narrate a living (inter)relationship with the earth, towards a more balanced whole. Indigenous medicines set in motion major changes in my life, which are fundamental to my ongoing healing. In this context, the term ‘medicine’ refers to Indigenous knowledges that contribute to healing, healing ceremonies, teachings, and plant medicines (mainly Ojibwe). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d077dbecb7a40bdb74c968faab8c54f2023-04-27T12:52:55ZengUniversity of Edinburgh LibraryMedicine Anthropology Theory2405-691X2023-04-0110111210.17157/mat.10.1.70357035Turning Cancer into Medicine: Storying Healing through ImageryCathy Fournier0University of TorontoThis Photo Essay explores my experience with cancer and healing using Indigenous traditional medicines. I use Photo First Voice, a form of auto-ethnography, to story my ‘living’ experience with cancer, which includes getting in touch with and honouring my Indigenous roots (Algonquin/French) attending healing ceremonies, and becoming an Oshkaabewis (a healer’s helper) myself. I integrate photographic images into this essay to illustrate my experiences and to enhance the meaning of the words I have committed to these pages. Each image represents a different aspect or level of knowledge and healing. These images and text are followed by a discussion in which I weave fragments of experience together to narrate a living (inter)relationship with the earth, towards a more balanced whole. Indigenous medicines set in motion major changes in my life, which are fundamental to my ongoing healing. In this context, the term ‘medicine’ refers to Indigenous knowledges that contribute to healing, healing ceremonies, teachings, and plant medicines (mainly Ojibwe).http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/7035indigenous medicineindigenous healingcancerstoryingphoto first voice |
| spellingShingle | Cathy Fournier Turning Cancer into Medicine: Storying Healing through Imagery Medicine Anthropology Theory indigenous medicine indigenous healing cancer storying photo first voice |
| title | Turning Cancer into Medicine: Storying Healing through Imagery |
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| title_short | Turning Cancer into Medicine: Storying Healing through Imagery |
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| topic | indigenous medicine indigenous healing cancer storying photo first voice |
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