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They all want magic : curanderas and folk healing / Elizabeth de la Portilla.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Portilla, Elizabeth de la.
- Series:
- Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 16.
- Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic American women healers--Texas--San Antonio.
- Hispanic American women healers.
- Medical anthropology--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Medical anthropology.
- Healing--Mexican-American Border Region--Religious aspects.
- Healing.
- Herbs--Therapeutic use.
- Herbs.
- Biculturalism--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Biculturalism.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Civilization.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Curanderas and folk healing
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Curanderas"--traditional healers in Mexican culture--bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence--spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern--dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As a scholar, an ethnographer, and a curandera in training, her parallel perspectives uniquely aid readers in understanding this subordinated culture. Retelling the stories various healers have shared, interpreting their answers to her probing questions, and describing the herbs and recipes they use in their arts, the author vividly illuminates the borderland context of San Antonio. Scholars and readers of anthropology, sociology, Chicana and Chicano studies, and women's studies will savor the many layers of meaning and application in "They All Want Magic."
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-373-8
- OCLC:
- 715188210
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