Introduction The film The Split Horn The Life of a Hmong Shaman in America focuses on how health and illness is dealt with in the Hmong culture. It is about the life of a Hmong family who moved to Appleton Wisconsin from Laos and how they are adapting to this new place. The journey of a Shaman 's family is explored and it is expressed that they have their own set of traditions in their culture but when this family moved to America it was learned that it is difficult to carry out traditions. Illnesses are looked at from different viewpoints across different cultures and depending on an individual 's culture, explanations for health are looked at and treated differently. This family learns that it is difficult to adjust to the American lifestyle,
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The Shaman in this film treated his, and his families illnesses by using treatments or rituals that were fitting to his cultures lay concepts of illness. In the film the Shaman was not feeling well so he decided to a special ceremony to see if his and families souls have wondered off, in American culture this ceremony is probably not known of but in the Hmong culture this ceremony is preformed to see if the their soul has gone away. Every culture has their own ways of looking at things and dealing with …show more content…
"Social models of health recognise that our health is influenced by a wide range of individual, interpersonal, organisation, social, environmental, political and economic factors" (Stuart, G. 2016). Factors such as culture, social and economic status, gender and many more. This films perspective would be changed to focussing on discolouration and how moving to another country can have big impacts on families. When the family moved to America from Laos the father grew depressed because he was falling sick and could not keep up with his traditions, and he knew that it was difficult for his sons to carry on as well. One of the son 's married a Caucasian female, and this was a big change to the
The Shaman in this film treated his, and his families illnesses by using treatments or rituals that were fitting to his cultures lay concepts of illness. In the film the Shaman was not feeling well so he decided to a special ceremony to see if his and families souls have wondered off, in American culture this ceremony is probably not known of but in the Hmong culture this ceremony is preformed to see if the their soul has gone away. Every culture has their own ways of looking at things and dealing with …show more content…
"Social models of health recognise that our health is influenced by a wide range of individual, interpersonal, organisation, social, environmental, political and economic factors" (Stuart, G. 2016). Factors such as culture, social and economic status, gender and many more. This films perspective would be changed to focussing on discolouration and how moving to another country can have big impacts on families. When the family moved to America from Laos the father grew depressed because he was falling sick and could not keep up with his traditions, and he knew that it was difficult for his sons to carry on as well. One of the son 's married a Caucasian female, and this was a big change to the