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    ‘We're Hands-On People’: Healing Diabetes in the Absence of Traditional Healers in an Aboriginal Community in Northern Territory, Australia.
    (Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand (ASAANZ), 2021-03-12) Mitchell AE; Farrelly T; Andrews R
    This study of a remote Aboriginal community in Australia’s Northern Territory in 2014 sought to understand diabetes from a local Aboriginal perspective. Participants drew on a variety of holistic healing methods in the absence of an individual or individuals identified as holding a healing role in the community. The study offers an alternative to the common assumption that all communities can identify specific individuals as Aboriginal healers who are central to maintaining Aboriginal beliefs and wellbeing who contribute to holistic health (Clarke 2008; Maher 1999; McDonald 2006; Seathre 2013; Williams 2011). This research found the seven adult Aboriginal diabetes patients participating in the longitudinal ethnographic study actively engaged in self-healing strategies. Moreover, diabetes clinicians could combine local remedies and biomedical treatment to heal diabetes within the clinic, as well as actively engaging the patient in their own treatment, effective to reduce the symptoms and prevalence of diabetes in Aboriginal populations.
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    National identity and cultural diversity: A research project that looks at what Year 12 students say about identity in New Zealand: Summary of results
    (Massey University, 2012) Andrews R; Bell A; Butler P; Tawhai V; Walshaw M
    The aim of the study The aim of the study was to develop an understanding of how young people think of themselves in terms of national identity. The research sought to identify what national identity looks like in New Zealand, how it is fostered, and how young people experience it in everyday life. This summary provides background information of the research and reports on how national identity is broadly conceptualised and experienced by Year 12 students. Background The question of who we are as a people has been a long-standing interest in New Zealand. In 2011 researchers at Massey University, with funding provided by the university, set out to provide an answer to the question from the perspective of young people. Given the bicultural foundations and the multicultural nature of New Zealand the researchers particularly wanted to understand what national identity now looks like, how it is fostered by families, schools, and technological communications, and how it is lived by young people.