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book and media reviews zation allows the reader to connect colonial health policy with Chamorro negotiations of these policies through local narratives and exegesis. I enjoyed Colonial Dis-Ease most for the Chamorro stories it told, which revealed the complex interplay of resistance and compliance to medical policies and colonial projects in general. While reading, I was fascinated with the images of "leprosy" patients being paraded through town amid a sorrowful crowd of family and friends, the midwives' casual disregard of yet simultaneous acquiescence to US medical rules, and the fear and pain of school children being surreptitiously sequestered in a hospital for hookworm treatments without the consent or knowledge of their parents. These stories, historically silenced amid the colonial din, have been vividly remembered within certain aspects of Chamorro communities, and are intensely activated in this book as colonial critique. Although Hattori's thesis at its most general regarding the complex negotiations of indigenous peoples with colonial policies has been attempted by many others with different specifics of subject and location, it becomes evident that balancing the multitude of colonial and indigenous voices and strategies is a difficult task. Her exemplary delivery of the argument and thesis within this
The Contemporary Pacific – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jul 27, 2006
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