Social work and traditional healing rituals among the Bedouin of the Negev, Israel

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Traditional healing rituals of the Bedouin community are linked with the Islamic way of living, and are an unstigmatizing and legitimized aspect of natural helping system for mental and physical ailments. The Bedouin rituals of visiting the saint's tomb, memorial for the dead, and invocation of God's name can be used to develop a culturally-specific social work intervention. This will require knowledge about network and systems theory and appreciation of biases which contribute to cultural identity. Three such Bedouin rituals are discussed.

Analysis, Healing, Religious aspects, Ritualism, Bedouins

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Social services and indigenous populations in remote areas: Alaska Natives and Negev Bedouin

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Two indigenous groups Natives in Alaska and Bedouins in Negev desert and obstacles for providing social services to them, which are distances and cultural incompatibility between providers and recipients, are discussed. It is concluded that, in order to help these populations effectively in a way that does not threaten their identity and unique way of life, a definite development model need to be formulated.

Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Alaska, Social Service Support Programs

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Walking between worlds: an exploration of the interface between indigenous and first-world industrialized culture

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The article helps to understand the connection between indigenous cultural beliefs and modern industrial culture using an ethnographical approach. Indigenous life's dominant values are giving, sharing, generosity, respect, and family community care whereas modern industrial urban life's values are materialism, individuality, lack of caring and generosity.

City and town life, Urban life

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