Curandero conversations : El Niño Fidencio, shamanism and healing traditions of the borderlands

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Label

Curandero conversations : El Niño Fidencio, shamanism and healing traditions of the borderlands

Title remainder

El Niño Fidencio, shamanism and healing traditions of the borderlands

Statement of responsibility

Antonio Zavaleta and Alberto Salinas Jr. ; introduction by Jamie Sams

Creator

• Zavaleta, Antonio

Contributor

• Salinas, Alberto, Jr
• Sams, Jamie, 1951-

Subject

• Healers -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Healers -- Mexico
• Healers -- Southwestern States
• Healing -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Healing -- Mexico
• Healing -- Southwestern States
• Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Mexico
• Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Southwestern States
• Medicine, Traditional -- Mexico
• Medicine, Traditional -- Southwestern United States
• Mexican Americans -- Medicine
• Cultural Competency
• Mexican Americans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Folklore
• Mexican Americans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Folklore
• Mexican-American Border Region -- Social life and customs
• Niño Fidencio, 1898-1938
• Plants, Medicinal -- Mexico
• Plants, Medicinal -- Southwestern United States
• Traditional medicine -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Traditional medicine -- Mexico
• Traditional medicine -- Southwestern States
• Mexican Americans -- Medicine -- Mexican-American Border Region

Genre

• Folklore

Language

eng

Summary

Curandero Conversations offers something for everyone. Following an introduction by renowned Native American healer and author, Jamie Sams, the book examines 190 actual email-based consultations with the curandero (Alberto Salinas, Jr.), followed by the anthropologist's (Dr. Antonio Zavaleta) commentary. The book also offers three major appendices including information for understanding cultural competencies in the delivery of health care, Internet resource links for continued study, and the most complete medicinal plant herbal used by curanderos/as on the U.S.-Mexico border. -- Publisher web site

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

N$V

Dewey number

615/.321

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography