Border Medicine : : A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo /

Border Medicine : : A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo / / Brett Hendrickson.

MexicanAmerican folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S.border region for centuries. A hybrid tradition made up primarily of indigenousand Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Hendrickson, Brett,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:North American Religions ; 10
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Contact and Combination
  • 1. Hybrid Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
  • 2. American Metaphysical Religion and the West
  • Part II. Saints and Spirits
  • 3. Curanderismo in the United States
  • 4. Channels of Healing
  • Part III. New Directions in Curanderismo
  • 5. Mexican American Healing and the American Spiritual Marketplace
  • 6. Reclaiming the Past and Redefining the Present
  • 7. Curanderismo as Transcultural Religious Healing Tradition
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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