Healing Through Art: Ritualized Space and Cree Identity

by Nadia Ferrara

Ferrara, who is accepted as a healer in Cree communities, shows how art therapy became a ritual for her patients, noting that Crees often associate art therapy and their experience in the bush and arguing that both constitute a place for them to re-affirm their notions of self. By including patient drawings and letting us hear Cree voices, "Healing through Art" gives us a sense of the reality of everyday Cree experience. This innovative book transcends...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773527214
• ISBN13: 9780773527218
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"