Healing Dramas : : Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico / / Raquel Romberg.
In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and their effectiveness in transforming the states of participants by focusing on the visible, albeit mostly obscure, ways in which healing and ma...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface. After Eight Years
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Healing Dramas
- Chapter One. A Flight Perfected at Death: Mimetic Memories of a Brujo
- Chapter Two. Dreams
- Chapter Three. Drama
- Chapter Four. Spiritual Time
- Chapter Five. The Sentient Body
- Chapter Six. Space
- Epilogue. A Farewell Trabajo
- Notes
- References
- Index