Title They all want magic : curanderas and folk healing / Elizabeth de la Portilla

Edition 1st ed Published College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 147 pages) Series Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 16 Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 16. Contents Introduction -- The road home -- Living in the borderlands means -- Work as medicine -- Curanderismo as a template for a Mexican American world view -- Healers and their clients -- La planta es la vida: the cultural life of plants in curanderismo -- Curanderismo and its possibilities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Hispanic American women healers -- Texas -- San Antonio Medical anthropology -- Mexican-American Border Region Healing -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Religious aspects Herbs -- Therapeutic use. Biculturalism -- Mexican-American Border Region Mexican Americans. Materia medica, Vegetable. Medicine, Botanic. Women. Medicine, Traditional Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Mexican Americans Phytotherapy Women women (female humans) Women Mexican Americans Medicine, Botanic Materia medica, Vegetable Biculturalism Civilization Healing -- Religious aspects Herbs -- Therapeutic use Hispanic American women healers Medical anthropology Heilerin Medizin Anthropologie Grenzgebiet Latina Frau SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization Texas Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Texas -- San Antonio Mexiko USA Form Electronic book ISBN 9781603443739 1603443738

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