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Papers by Eva Garroutte

This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indig... more This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indigenous communities. The title phrase-Activating the Heart-summarizes a central message. The volume encourages researchers to move their inquiries beyond any posture of professedly disengaged, academic objectivity as they carry out their work. It urges them instead toward fully human encounters in which they and their Indigenous participants endeavor to reveal themselves to each other and forge meaningful bonds. Throughout, contributors focus on storytelling, in its many forms, as both research method and methodology. They argue and illustrate how that activity and the values that ground it can become vehicles by which both researchers and communities explore meanings that inform their lived experience, make such experience available to each other, and generate new meanings and opportunities. Editors Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox and Lisa Szabo-Jones observe that the volume aspires to influence not only research inquiry but also academic training: to "make room for a different kind of education, one that builds necessary ties between community and academia to engender a space for broader, non-oppressive education models" (xi). Toward these ends, chapters "examine storytelling as a mode of understanding, sharing, and creating knowledge" (xii). Separate sections of the volume take up each of these three intellectual tasks. The section on "Storytelling to Understand" begins with the essay "Finding My Way: Emotions and Ethics in Community-Based Action Research with Indigenous Communities." Here, Leonie Sandercock-self-described "immigrant Australian-working class white girl PhD-ed and socialized into Anglo-American academia" (7)-discusses her experiences collaborating with a First-Nations community in British Columbia via an "action research" project.

American Journal of Public Health, Jul 1, 2015

The Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities program promotes multilevel and multifac... more The Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities program promotes multilevel and multifactorial health equity research and the building of research teams that are transdisciplinary. We summarized 5 areas of scientific training for empowering the next generation of health disparities investigators with research methods and skills that are needed to solve disparities and inequalities in cancer and cardiovascular disease. These areas include social epidemiology, multilevel modeling, health care systems or health care delivery, community-based participatory research, and implementation science. We reviewed the acquisition of the skill sets described in the training components; these skill sets will position trainees to become leaders capable of effecting significant change because they provide tools that can be used to address the complexities of issues that promote health disparities.

Transmotion, Jul 1, 2019

This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indig... more This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indigenous communities. The title phrase-Activating the Heart-summarizes a central message. The volume encourages researchers to move their inquiries beyond any posture of professedly disengaged, academic objectivity as they carry out their work. It urges them instead toward fully human encounters in which they and their Indigenous participants endeavor to reveal themselves to each other and forge meaningful bonds. Throughout, contributors focus on storytelling, in its many forms, as both research method and methodology. They argue and illustrate how that activity and the values that ground it can become vehicles by which both researchers and communities explore meanings that inform their lived experience, make such experience available to each other, and generate new meanings and opportunities. Editors Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox and Lisa Szabo-Jones observe that the volume aspires to influence not only research inquiry but also academic training: to "make room for a different kind of education, one that builds necessary ties between community and academia to engender a space for broader, non-oppressive education models" (xi). Toward these ends, chapters "examine storytelling as a mode of understanding, sharing, and creating knowledge" (xii). Separate sections of the volume take up each of these three intellectual tasks. The section on "Storytelling to Understand" begins with the essay "Finding My Way: Emotions and Ethics in Community-Based Action Research with Indigenous Communities." Here, Leonie Sandercock-self-described "immigrant Australian-working class white girl PhD-ed and socialized into Anglo-American academia" (7)-discusses her experiences collaborating with a First-Nations community in British Columbia via an "action research" project.


Social Studies of Science, Dec 1, 1999

Steve Woolgar has urged the sociology of scientific knowledge to `interrogate representation&... more Steve Woolgar has urged the sociology of scientific knowledge to `interrogate representation', and he has advocated an exploration of reflexivity issues as a means toward this end. However, ten years of scholarship addressing the meaning and purpose of a subdiscipline dedicated to displaying the social constructedness of all texts (including, at least by implication, its own) have yielded little. I propose an approach to the reflexivity dilemma, and to the larger question of `representation', which differs significantly from those previously attempted. This alternative requires the genuinely radical step of considering a very different philosophy of language than the one(s) currently shared by SSK researchers and the scientists whose accounts constitute SSK's `data'. Philosophies of language which might serve as instructive examples presently exist in the thought of some indigenous peoples, particularly American Indians. I explore one such philosophy as it is articulated by a Navajo student of traditional learning. I then show how such a philosophy of language reconfigures the reflexivity problem, and also offers SSK some ideas about how it might begin to do what it cannot presently do: formulate a genuinely radical interrogation of representation.

Journal of Community Health, Feb 9, 2018

More than 58 million nonsmokers in the U.S. encounter secondhand smoke that leads to tobaccorelat... more More than 58 million nonsmokers in the U.S. encounter secondhand smoke that leads to tobaccorelated diseases and deaths every year, making voluntary household smoking bans an important public health goal. American Indians/Alaska Natives are rarely included in research related to household smoking bans. Further, most studies dichotomize household smoking bans into complete bans versus partial/no bans, rendering it impossible to determine if partial and no bans are associated with different or similar risk factors. Using the 2014 Cherokee Nation American Indian Adult Tobacco Survey, our study sought to identify prevalence of household smoking bans, their extent, and their correlates in an American Indian population. This cross-sectional analysis used multinomial logistic regression to determine correlates of complete, partial, and no household smoking bans. Results indicated that approximately 84% of Cherokee households have a complete ban. Younger age, female gender, higher education, higher household income, respondent's nonsmoking status, good health, better awareness of harms related to secondhand smoke, visits with a healthcare provider within the past year, and children in the home were positively and significantly associated with complete household smoking bans. Additionally, there were notable differences between correlates related to partial bans and no bans. These results provide insight for the development of more appropriate interventions for American Indian households that do not have a complete household smoking ban.

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Mar 1, 1989

The History Teacher, Nov 1, 2004

American Indian Quarterly, 2001

Michael Omi and Harold Winant define “racial formation” as the process by which individuals are d... more Michael Omi and Harold Winant define “racial formation” as the process by which individuals are divided, by historically mutable rules, into racial cate-gories.1 American Indians differ from other twenty-first-century racial groups in the extent to which their racial formation is ...

American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1999

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, Aug 27, 2015

Introduction: Tobacco use is the leading behavioral cause of death among adults 25 years or older... more Introduction: Tobacco use is the leading behavioral cause of death among adults 25 years or older. American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) communities confront some of the highest rates of tobacco use and of its sequelae. Primary care-based screening of adolescents is an integral step in the reduction of tobacco use, yet remains virtually unstudied. We examined whether delivery of tobacco screening in primary care visits is associated with patient and provider characteristics among AI/AN adolescents. Methods: We used a cross-sectional analysis to examine tobacco screening among 4757 adolescent AI/AN patients served by 56 primary care providers at a large tribally managed health system between October 1, 2011 and May 31, 2014. Screening prevalence was examined in association with categorical patient characteristics (gender, age, clinic visited, insurance coverage) and provider characteristics (gender, age, tenure) using multilevel logistic regressions with individual provider identity as the nesting variable. Results: Thirty-seven percent of eligible patients were screened. Gender of both providers and patients was associated with screening. Male providers delivered screening more often than female providers (odds ratio [OR] 1.6, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.7-3.9). Male patients had 20% lower odds of screening receipt (OR 0.8, 95% CI 0.7-0.9) than female patients, independent of patient age and provider characteristics. Individual provider identity significantly contributed to variability in the mixed-effects model (variance component 2.2; 95% CI 1.4-3.4), suggesting individual provider effect. Conclusions: Low tobacco screening delivery by female providers and the low receipt of screening among younger, male patients may identify targets for screening interventions.

Routledge eBooks, Sep 29, 2022

Page 66. 3 When scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in history Eva ... more Page 66. 3 When scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in history Eva Marie Garroutte Shadowy presences, blobs of ectoplasm, spectral voices: these are the stuff of spiritualist records from America's nineteenth century. ...

University of California Press eBooks, Jun 4, 2003

This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indig... more This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indigenous communities. The title phrase-Activating the Heart-summarizes a central message. The volume encourages researchers to move their inquiries beyond any posture of professedly disengaged, academic objectivity as they carry out their work. It urges them instead toward fully human encounters in which they and their Indigenous participants endeavor to reveal themselves to each other and forge meaningful bonds. Throughout, contributors focus on storytelling, in its many forms, as both research method and methodology. They argue and illustrate how that activity and the values that ground it can become vehicles by which both researchers and communities explore meanings that inform their lived experience, make such experience available to each other, and generate new meanings and opportunities. Editors Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox and Lisa Szabo-Jones observe that the volume aspires to influence not only research inquiry but also academic training: to "make room for a different kind of education, one that builds necessary ties between community and academia to engender a space for broader, non-oppressive education models" (xi). Toward these ends, chapters "examine storytelling as a mode of understanding, sharing, and creating knowledge" (xii). Separate sections of the volume take up each of these three intellectual tasks. The section on "Storytelling to Understand" begins with the essay "Finding My Way: Emotions and Ethics in Community-Based Action Research with Indigenous Communities." Here, Leonie Sandercock-self-described "immigrant Australian-working class white girl PhD-ed and socialized into Anglo-American academia" (7)-discusses her experiences collaborating with a First-Nations community in British Columbia via an "action research" project.

American Journal of Public Health, Jul 1, 2015

The Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities program promotes multilevel and multifac... more The Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities program promotes multilevel and multifactorial health equity research and the building of research teams that are transdisciplinary. We summarized 5 areas of scientific training for empowering the next generation of health disparities investigators with research methods and skills that are needed to solve disparities and inequalities in cancer and cardiovascular disease. These areas include social epidemiology, multilevel modeling, health care systems or health care delivery, community-based participatory research, and implementation science. We reviewed the acquisition of the skill sets described in the training components; these skill sets will position trainees to become leaders capable of effecting significant change because they provide tools that can be used to address the complexities of issues that promote health disparities.

Transmotion, Jul 1, 2019

This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indig... more This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indigenous communities. The title phrase-Activating the Heart-summarizes a central message. The volume encourages researchers to move their inquiries beyond any posture of professedly disengaged, academic objectivity as they carry out their work. It urges them instead toward fully human encounters in which they and their Indigenous participants endeavor to reveal themselves to each other and forge meaningful bonds. Throughout, contributors focus on storytelling, in its many forms, as both research method and methodology. They argue and illustrate how that activity and the values that ground it can become vehicles by which both researchers and communities explore meanings that inform their lived experience, make such experience available to each other, and generate new meanings and opportunities. Editors Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox and Lisa Szabo-Jones observe that the volume aspires to influence not only research inquiry but also academic training: to "make room for a different kind of education, one that builds necessary ties between community and academia to engender a space for broader, non-oppressive education models" (xi). Toward these ends, chapters "examine storytelling as a mode of understanding, sharing, and creating knowledge" (xii). Separate sections of the volume take up each of these three intellectual tasks. The section on "Storytelling to Understand" begins with the essay "Finding My Way: Emotions and Ethics in Community-Based Action Research with Indigenous Communities." Here, Leonie Sandercock-self-described "immigrant Australian-working class white girl PhD-ed and socialized into Anglo-American academia" (7)-discusses her experiences collaborating with a First-Nations community in British Columbia via an "action research" project.


Social Studies of Science, Dec 1, 1999

Steve Woolgar has urged the sociology of scientific knowledge to `interrogate representation&... more Steve Woolgar has urged the sociology of scientific knowledge to `interrogate representation', and he has advocated an exploration of reflexivity issues as a means toward this end. However, ten years of scholarship addressing the meaning and purpose of a subdiscipline dedicated to displaying the social constructedness of all texts (including, at least by implication, its own) have yielded little. I propose an approach to the reflexivity dilemma, and to the larger question of `representation', which differs significantly from those previously attempted. This alternative requires the genuinely radical step of considering a very different philosophy of language than the one(s) currently shared by SSK researchers and the scientists whose accounts constitute SSK's `data'. Philosophies of language which might serve as instructive examples presently exist in the thought of some indigenous peoples, particularly American Indians. I explore one such philosophy as it is articulated by a Navajo student of traditional learning. I then show how such a philosophy of language reconfigures the reflexivity problem, and also offers SSK some ideas about how it might begin to do what it cannot presently do: formulate a genuinely radical interrogation of representation.

Journal of Community Health, Feb 9, 2018

More than 58 million nonsmokers in the U.S. encounter secondhand smoke that leads to tobaccorelat... more More than 58 million nonsmokers in the U.S. encounter secondhand smoke that leads to tobaccorelated diseases and deaths every year, making voluntary household smoking bans an important public health goal. American Indians/Alaska Natives are rarely included in research related to household smoking bans. Further, most studies dichotomize household smoking bans into complete bans versus partial/no bans, rendering it impossible to determine if partial and no bans are associated with different or similar risk factors. Using the 2014 Cherokee Nation American Indian Adult Tobacco Survey, our study sought to identify prevalence of household smoking bans, their extent, and their correlates in an American Indian population. This cross-sectional analysis used multinomial logistic regression to determine correlates of complete, partial, and no household smoking bans. Results indicated that approximately 84% of Cherokee households have a complete ban. Younger age, female gender, higher education, higher household income, respondent's nonsmoking status, good health, better awareness of harms related to secondhand smoke, visits with a healthcare provider within the past year, and children in the home were positively and significantly associated with complete household smoking bans. Additionally, there were notable differences between correlates related to partial bans and no bans. These results provide insight for the development of more appropriate interventions for American Indian households that do not have a complete household smoking ban.

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Mar 1, 1989

The History Teacher, Nov 1, 2004

American Indian Quarterly, 2001

Michael Omi and Harold Winant define “racial formation” as the process by which individuals are d... more Michael Omi and Harold Winant define “racial formation” as the process by which individuals are divided, by historically mutable rules, into racial cate-gories.1 American Indians differ from other twenty-first-century racial groups in the extent to which their racial formation is ...

American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1999

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, Aug 27, 2015

Introduction: Tobacco use is the leading behavioral cause of death among adults 25 years or older... more Introduction: Tobacco use is the leading behavioral cause of death among adults 25 years or older. American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) communities confront some of the highest rates of tobacco use and of its sequelae. Primary care-based screening of adolescents is an integral step in the reduction of tobacco use, yet remains virtually unstudied. We examined whether delivery of tobacco screening in primary care visits is associated with patient and provider characteristics among AI/AN adolescents. Methods: We used a cross-sectional analysis to examine tobacco screening among 4757 adolescent AI/AN patients served by 56 primary care providers at a large tribally managed health system between October 1, 2011 and May 31, 2014. Screening prevalence was examined in association with categorical patient characteristics (gender, age, clinic visited, insurance coverage) and provider characteristics (gender, age, tenure) using multilevel logistic regressions with individual provider identity as the nesting variable. Results: Thirty-seven percent of eligible patients were screened. Gender of both providers and patients was associated with screening. Male providers delivered screening more often than female providers (odds ratio [OR] 1.6, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.7-3.9). Male patients had 20% lower odds of screening receipt (OR 0.8, 95% CI 0.7-0.9) than female patients, independent of patient age and provider characteristics. Individual provider identity significantly contributed to variability in the mixed-effects model (variance component 2.2; 95% CI 1.4-3.4), suggesting individual provider effect. Conclusions: Low tobacco screening delivery by female providers and the low receipt of screening among younger, male patients may identify targets for screening interventions.

Routledge eBooks, Sep 29, 2022

Page 66. 3 When scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in history Eva ... more Page 66. 3 When scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in history Eva Marie Garroutte Shadowy presences, blobs of ectoplasm, spectral voices: these are the stuff of spiritualist records from America's nineteenth century. ...

University of California Press eBooks, Jun 4, 2003