They all want magic [electronic resource] : curanderas and folk healing / Elizabeth de la Portilla.

By: Portilla, Elizabeth de laContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo ; no. 16.Publication details: College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2009Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 147 pISBN: 9781603443739 (electronic bk.)Other title: Curanderas and folk healingSubject(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 LOC classification: GN296.5.U6 | P67 2009Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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