Women and knowledge in Mesoamerica : from east L.A. to Anahuac / Paloma Martinez-Cruz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martinez-Cruz, Paloma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Intellectual life.

Indian women.

Indian women--Rites and ceremonies.

Indian women--Social conditions.

Rites and ceremonies.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2011]

Summary:

This book disrupts Euro-based intellectual hegemony and makes a case for the epistemic authority of Native women. Written from a Chicana perspective, this study is learned, personal, and engaging for anyone who is interested in the wisdom that prevailing analytical cultures have deemed "unintelligible." As it turns out, those who are unacquainted with the sometimes surprising extent and depth of wisdom of indigenous women healers simply haven't been looking in the right places - outside the texts from which those women have been consistently excluded. Book jacket.

Contents:

From East L.A.

Women healers of Tenochtitlan

Plotting Prospero's daughters

Survivor women

AluciNet.ion: spiritual capital in the Sierra Mazateca

Contesting the Pathogen myth: Chicano literature as curative

To Anahuac.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-178) and index.

ISBN:

9780816529421

0816529426

OCLC:

713192632