Author:
Torres, Eliseo.
Imprint:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2005.
Descriptionix, 170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note:The healing tradition of a family and a culture -- The awakening -- I am healed by Doņa 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 Doņa 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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