Borderlands Curanderos : The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo / Jennifer Koshatka Seman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seman, Jennifer Koshatka, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Healers--Mexican-American Border Region--Biography.

Healers.

Spiritual healing--Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Spiritual healing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Don Pedrito Jaramillo (1823-1907) and Santa Teresa Urrea (1873-1906) practiced curanderismo, or faith healing, along the U.S.-Mexico border around the turn of the twentieth century. Jaramillo worked on the far eastern Texas-Mexico border in the South Texas Rio Grande Valley, and Santa Teresa worked further west in El Paso, the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, and Southern California. In Borderlands Curanderos, Jennifer Koshatka Seman offers a sort of parallel biography of these two curanderos, examining their trajectories and setting their lives in dialogue with many of the concerns of recent borderlands history"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction. Borderlands curanderos : the worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Part I. Santa Teresa Urrea

The Mexican Joan of Arc : healing and resistance in the US-Mexico borderlands

Laying on of hands : espiritismo and modernity in the urban borderlands of San Francisco and Los Angeles

Part II. Don Pedrito Jaramillo

All roads lead to Don Pedrito Jaramillo : healing the individual and the social body in the South Texas Río Grande Valley

In the clutches of black magic : curanderismo and the construction of a Mexican American identity in the US-Mexico borderlands

Conclusion

Appendix : Don Pedrito Jaramillo cure sample.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477321942

1477321942

9781477321935

1477321934

OCLC:

1343104343