Red medicine : traditional indigenous rites of birthing and healing / Patrisia Gonzales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzales, Patrisia.

Series:

First peoples (2010)

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of North America.

Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of Mexico.

Traditional medicine--North America.

Traditional medicine.

Traditional medicine--Mexico.

Manners and customs.

Healing.

Birth customs.

Mexico.

Birth customs--North America.

Birth customs--Mexico.

Healing--North America.

Healing--Mexico.

North America--Social life and customs.

North America.

Mexico--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

xxv, 273 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]

Summary:

Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Anatomy of Learning: Yauhtli, Peyotzin, Tobacco, and Maguey 13

2 Birth Ceremony: Storying Sacred Knowledge 36

3 Ceremony of Memory: The Call and Response 68

4 Ceremony of Sweeping: Symbols as Medicine 90

5 Ceremony of the Land ¿Y dónde está tu ombligo? 120

6 Ceremony of Time: Time as Medicine 159

7 Dreaming Ceremony: Medicine Dreams 169

8 Curing Ceremony: Spiders in Her Hair 188

9 Ceremony of Return 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816529568

0816529566

OCLC:

760532627