They all want magic [electronic resource] : curanderas and folk healing / Elizabeth de la Portilla.
By: Portilla, Elizabeth de la.
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BookSeries: Rio Grande/R�io Bravo: no. 16.Publisher: College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: x, 147 p. ; 24 cm.Other title: Curanderas and folk healing.Subject(s): 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-American Border Region -- CivilizationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.4/610972/1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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