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They All Want Magic - Elizabeth de la Portilla

They All Want Magic

Curanderas and Folk Healing
Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2009
Texas A & M University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60344-099-8 (ISBN)
CHF 78,45 inkl. MwSt
Curanderas - traditional healers in Mexican culture - bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence - spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern - dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. This book writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas.
Curanderas - traditional healers in Mexican culture - bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence - spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern - dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As a scholar, an ethnographer, and a curandera in training, her parallel perspectives uniquely aid readers in understanding this subordinated culture. Retelling the stories various healers have shared, interpreting their answers to her probing questions, and describing the herbs and recipes they use in their arts, the author vividly illuminates the borderland context of San Antonio. Scholars and readers of anthropology, sociology, Chicana and Chicano studies, and women's studies will savor the many layers of meaning and application in They All Want Magic.

ELIZABETH DE LA PORTILLA, an assistant professor of bilingual and bicultural studies in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio, holds a joint appointment in the anthropology department there.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.3.2009
Verlagsort College Station
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Alternative Heilverfahren
Medizin / Pharmazie Naturheilkunde Phytotherapie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-60344-099-2 / 1603440992
ISBN-13 978-1-60344-099-8 / 9781603440998
Zustand Neuware
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