Healing cultures : art and religion as curative practices in the Caribbean and its diaspora / edited by Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernández Olmos, Margarite.

Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traditional medicine--Caribbean Area.

Traditional medicine.

Black people--Caribbean Area--Religion.

Black people.

Healing--Religious aspects.

Healing.

Medicine and art--Caribbean Area.

Medicine and art.

Religion.

Caribbean Area--Social life and customs.

Caribbean Area.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xxi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

The Spanish expression -- la cultura cura (culture heals) -- is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines -- anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film, cultural and religious studies -- bringing together the broad range of beliefs and the spectrum of practices that have sustained the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-232).

ISBN:

0312218982

OCLC:

44701186