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Portilla, Elizabeth de la.

They all want magic curanderas and folk healing / [electronic resource] : Curanderas and folk healing Elizabeth de la Portilla. - 1st ed. - College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2009. - x, 147 p. - Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 16 . - Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 16. .

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,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Hispanic American women healers--Texas--San Antonio.
Medical anthropology--Mexican-American Border Region.
Healing--Religious aspects.--Mexican-American Border Region
Herbs--Therapeutic use.
Biculturalism--Mexican-American Border Region.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mexican-American Border Region--Civilization.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GN296.5.U6 / P67 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4/610972/1