出版社：Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
摘要：This article focuses on Yamatji women's experiences of breast cancer relating such experiences to a wide framework of kinship and cosmology, using insights gained through ethnographic immersion. Particularly striking is the focus of female connectedness and centrality within the household, even more so in the absence of male partners, thus purporting Yamatji women as heads of households. Nonetheless, it is this centrality of women which is also an obstacle to receiving appropriate cancer care. This article allows for multilayered understandings of matrifocality among one marginalised group. It further provides new insights for medical anthropology by discussing issues relating to Yamatji interactions with the state in regard to aboriginal health beliefs, social structures and the medicalisation of people's lives
关键词：Matrifocality; Yamatji; breast cancer; Western Australia; kinship
