Curandero : a life in Mexican folk healing /
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| Author / Creator: | Torres, Eliseo. |
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| Imprint: | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2005. |
| Description: | ix, 170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5614205 |
Table of Contents:
- The healing tradition of a family and a culture
- The awakening
- I am healed by Doña María
- I face the great black dog
- My father's ancestral wisdom
- Exotic rituals I have known
- Don Pedrito, curandero
- The great materia, Chenchito Alvarado
- The midwife Doña Juana, a partera
- Art Esquibel tells me the story of Teresita, Saint of Cabora
- How I was fed and healed by plants
- Folk healing in this modern world
- Curanderismo goes to school
- Recent curanderos.
