Sorcery and shamanism : curanderos and clients in northern Peru / Donald Joralemon and Douglas Sharon.

Author: Joralemon, Donald.

Imprint:Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1993.

Descriptionx, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.

Note:"Unusual study of northern coastal Peruvian curers centers on their lives and shared cultural ideology, the roots of which derive from indigenous cosmology, not folk Catholicism. Studies curers' philosophy by analyzing four patient accounts and examining their role in social and gender-based conflicts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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