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. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.