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They all want magic : curanderas and folk healing
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Elizabeth de la Portilla
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- College Station, Tex. : Texas A and M University Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 147 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781603440998, 1603443738, 1603440992, 160344114X, 9781603443739, 9781603441148
- OCLC
- ocn715188210
- 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
Subjects
- 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 -- Civilization.
- Medicine, Traditional.
Medical Subject Heading
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
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- Mexican Americans.
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- Phytotherapy.
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- Women.
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- Texas.
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