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Healing with Herbs and Rituals

Autor: Torres Eliseo “cheo”

Número de Páginas: 177

Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of yerberas, or herbalists, as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. Part One, Folk Healers and Folk Healing, focuses on individual healers and their procedures. Part Two, Green Medicine: Traditional Mexican-American Herbs and Remedies, details traditional Mexican-American herbs and cures. These remedies are the product of centuries of experience in Mexico, heavily influenced by the Moors, Judeo-Christians, and Aztecs, and include everyday items such as lemon, egg, fire, aromatic oil, and prepared water. Symbolic objects such as keys, candles, brooms, and Trouble Dolls are also used. Dedicated, in part, to curanderos throughout Mexico and the American Southwest, Healing with Herbs and Rituals shows us these practitioners are humble, sincere people who have given themselves to improving lives for many decades. Today's holistic health movement has rediscovered the timeless merits of the curanderos' uses of medicinal plants, rituals, and practical advice.

Studies in Texan Folklore--Rio Grande Valley

Autor: Thomas Meade Harwell

Número de Páginas: 186

Based on original research, this study gives the first in-depth study of Rio Grande Valley Folklore in Texas, combining Hispanic and American elements. Contains studies on the evil eye, shock, recetas and curanderos (healers and healing), ghosts, owllore, and weather. Many extracts from interviews are reproduced in detail, and full commentary, notes and bibliography are provided.

Curandero Conversations

Autor: Antonio Zavaleta , Alberto Salinas Jr , Alberto Salinas (jr.)

Número de Páginas: 486

"The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College."

Entre Dios y el Diablo

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 180

Los primeros evangelizadores de los Andes no tardaron en descubrir que el principal obstáculo a su misión era la presencia del demonio que los indios adoraban bajo la forma de ídolos o de manifestaciones de la naturaleza como el sol, la luna, las estrellas. Sin embargo, beneficiaron de un instrumento ideal para luchar contra este enemigo: la existencia de una “lengua general” el quechua que llamaban del “inga” que les permitía predicar, en un lenguaje comprensible a la mayoría, la refutación de las idolatrías. “¿Has visto al perro que, tirándole una piedra, deja de morder a quien se la tira y muerde la piedra? Pues, así haces tú cuando adoras al sol que no sabe lo que haces. ¿Piensas tú que, porque es tan grande y tan resplandeciente el sol, que por eso es Dios? Es cosa de risa; tú indio miserable, eres mejor y de más estima que el sol porque tienes alma y sientes y hablas y conoces a Dios. El sol no siente ni habla ni conoce más de que es una hacha grande que puso Dios allí para alumbrar este mundo. Pues la luna y las estrellas menos son que el sol y no hacen sino dar vueltas sin descansar como Dios los manda, pues las puso para adornar el cielo y para...

Chicano Folklore

Autor: Rafaela Castro

Número de Páginas: 330

Originally published under title: Dictionary of Chicano folklore. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.

Ser curandero en Uruapan

Autor: Teresita De Jesús Ruiz Méndez

Número de Páginas: 326

Narco-Cults

Autor: Tony M. Kail

Número de Páginas: 295

Those who know about how spirituality plays into the world of drug smuggling have likely heard of Santa Muerte, Jesus Malverde, and Santer but the details of the more obscure African religions and Latin American folk saints and cults often remain a mystery. While the vast majority of these religions are practiced by law-abiding citizens with no co

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology

Autor: Nicolàs Kanellos , Claudia Esteva-fabregat , Thomas Weaver

Número de Páginas: 384

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.

Witchcraft and Magic

Autor: Helen A. Berger

Número de Páginas: 217

Magic, always part of the occult underground in North America, has experienced a resurgence since the 1960s. Although most contemporary magical religions have come from abroad, they have found fertile ground in which to develop in North America. Who are today's believers in Witchcraft and how do they worship? Alternative spiritual paths have increased the ranks of followers dramatically, particularly among well-educated middle-class individuals. Witchcraft and Magic conveys the richness of magical religious experiences found in today's culture, covering the continent of North America and the Caribbean. These original essays survey current and historical issues pertinent to religions that incorporate magical or occult beliefs and practices, and they examine contemporary responses to these religions. The relationship between Witchcraft and Neopaganism is explored, as is their intersection with established groups practicing goddess worship. Recent years have seen the growth in New Age magic and Afro-Caribbean religions, and these developments are also addressed in this volume. All the religions covered offer adherents an alternative worldview and rituals that are aimed at helping...

Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors

Autor: Bobette Perrone , H. Henrietta Stockel , Victoria Krueger

Número de Páginas: 276

The stories of ten women healers explore cultural healing methods utilized by women and present three distinct interpretations of the causes and treatments of human illness

Fundamentals of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine - E-Book

Autor: Marc S. Micozzi

Número de Páginas: 784

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Complementary & Integrative Health** Get a solid, global foundation of the therapies and evidence-based clinical applications of CAI. Fundamentals of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine, 6th Edition is filled with the most up-to-date information on scientific theory and research of holistic medicine from experts around the world. The 6th edition of this acclaimed text includes all new content on quantum biology and biofields in health and nursing, integrative mental health care, and homeopathic medicine. Its wide range of topics explores therapies most commonly seen in the U.S., such as energy medicine, mind-body therapies, and reflexology along with traditional medicine and practices from around the world. With detailed coverage of historic and contemporary applications, this text is a solid resource for all practitioners in the medical, health, and science fields! - Coverage of CAI therapies and systems includes those most commonly encountered or growing in popularity, so you can carefully evaluate each treatment. - An evidence-based approach focuses on treatments best supported by clinical trials and scientific...

Montalban/29

Número de Páginas: 290

Magico-Religious Groups and Ritualistic Activities

Autor: Tony M. Kail

Número de Páginas: 170

A woman lays unconscious on the floor surrounded by charcoaled symbols, burning candles, a bowl of viscous red liquid, and an array of dried herbs. Was this a healing ritual gone wrong or just straightforward foul play? Increasingly, first responders must deal with foreign practices and cultures that are often disturbing in their unfamiliarity. Und

Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine - E-Book

Autor: Marc S. Micozzi

Número de Páginas: 783

Practitioners like you have been turning to Micozzi's comprehensive CAM text for the past 20 years. Filled with the most up-to-date information on scientific theory and research and updated contributions from world experts, Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 5th Edition gives you a solid foundation of the therapies and evidence-based clinical applications for CAM – and expands your global perspective with new and updated chapters on healing systems from around the world. Dive into interesting discussions on massage, manual therapies and bodywork, yoga, chiropractic, osteopathy, herbal medicine, aromatherapy and essential oils therapy, "nature cure," naturopathy and naturopathic medicine, and nutrition and hydration. With its wide range of topics, this 20th anniversary edition is your ideal CAM reference! • A broad perspective traces CAM therapies from their beginnings to present day practices. • Clinical guides for selecting therapies, and new advances for matching the appropriate therapy to the individual patient, enables you to offer and/or recommend individualized patient care. • Expert contributors include well-known writers such as Kevin Ergil,...

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health

Autor: Dorothea Lüddeckens , Philipp Hetmanczyk , Pamela E. Klassen , Justin B. Stein

Número de Páginas: 691

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts: Healing practices with religious roots and frames Religious actors in and around the medical field Organizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competition Boundary-making between religion and medicine Religion and epidemics Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading ...

Sorcery and Shamanism

Autor: Donald Joralemon , Douglas Sharon

Número de Páginas: 324

The curanderos of northern Peru, traditional healing specialists who invoke Jesus Christ and the saints with a mescaline sacrament and a shamanic rattle, are not vestigial curiosities nor are their patients rural illiterates without access to "modern medicine." Instead, many of these shamans have thriving urban practices with clients from all levels of society. Sorcery and Shamanism documents the lives and rituals of twelve curanderos, offering a perspective on their curing role and shared knowledge. Authors Donald Joralemon and Douglas Sharon also consider the therapeutic experiences of over one hundred patients, including case histories and follow-ups. They offer a broad view of the shamans' work in modern Peruvian society, particularly in connection with gender-based conflicts. The significant work goes a long way toward dispelling the stereotype of shamans as enigmatic and wise, showing them to be pragmatic curers confronting the health effects of everyday aggressions and betrayals.

How Can I Heal What Hurts?

Autor: Daniel J. Benor

Número de Páginas: 666

Reviews and discusses the research studies of self-healing, CAM and bioenergy therapies in less detail, with explanations appropriate for lay readers. It is not referenced as extensively as the Professional edition. An additional chapter provides many self-healing approaches and exercises. Learn how the body and mind work together in health and illness, and how to use new and ancient wholistic mind-body techniques to heal physical and psychological problems. Explore techniques used for self-healing; Learn about biological energy medicine from Acupuncture to Yoga; Learn the interactions of biological energies with environmental energies; See research in unconventional energies and their relevance to healing.

Letras Y Limpias

Autor: Amanda Ellis

Número de Páginas: 297

Letras y Limpias is the first book to explore the literary significance of the curandera. It offers critical new insights about how traditional medicine and folk healing underwrite Mexican American literature. Amanda Ellis traces the significance of the curandera and her evolution across a variety of genres written by Mexican American authors such as Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Manuel Munoz, ire'ne lara silva, and more.

Latina/o American Health and Mental Health

Autor: Leticia Arellano-morales Ph.d. , Erica T. Sosa

Número de Páginas: 242

Essential reading for health and mental health administrators, community agencies, and policy makers as well as students and general interest readers, this book details the state of the physical and mental health of many Latina/o American groups. While Latina/o Americans originate from more than 25 countries, most health or mental health texts largely focus on Mexican Americans and often fail to address other Latina/o groups, such as South Americans, Central Americans, Puerto Ricans, and others. Moreover, most works address either health or mental health, but not both together. In contrast, Latina/o American Health and Mental Health addresses both the health and mental health of diverse Latina/o heritage groups. An interdisciplinary approach enables readers to identify both similar and divergent areas that affect the health and mental health of Latina/o Americans. Strengths-based and social justice perspectives, rather than a deficit perspective, guide the work in its assessment of disparities among treatment for different groups. This text is ideal for graduate students, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in public health, community health, family studies, psychology,...

Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing

Autor: Daniel J. Benor

Número de Páginas: 722

People have the potential to heal themselves and each other. Dr. Daniel Benor, a wholistic psychiatrist, explains how mind-body and body-mind interactions promote health or cause illness. Clear and concise explanations of a large body of research, clinical examples, and a variety of theory explain healing through complementary/alternative medicine. Dr. Benor reviews research-supporting claims that complementary/alternative therapies and bioenergy therapies are potent and effective treatments.

El chamán de los cuatro vientos

Autor: Douglas Sharon

Número de Páginas: 270

Una historia moderna a propósito de la práctica secular del curanderismo, al tiempo que retrato de un individuo extraordinario, Eduardo Calderón Palomino, escultor y maestro, católico y chamán peruano. Más que biografía, es un agudo análisis de la visión del mundo de un curandero contemporáneo, de su arte, de sus bregas y de su búsqueda personal de sentidos. Con ayuda de datos comparativos, el autor muestra que los chamanes de toda América emplean análogos objetos de poder y comparten una cosmología notablemente similar, de gran antigüedad.

In Dark Alleys the Role Playing Game

Número de Páginas: 290

They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing

Autor: Elizabeth De La Portilla

Número de Páginas: 161

"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."

Alternative Therapies

Autor: Rena Gordon, Phd , Barbara Nienstedt, Dpa , Wilbert Gesler, Phd

Número de Páginas: 297

In this volume, an interdisciplinary team of scholars and social scientists address the reasons and ramifications of the increasing utilization of alternative and complementary medicine. The book provides a scholarly and theoretical discussion of salient issues within this new field. Topics discussed include: the changing medical market place political and legal aspects of practice influential cultural factors clinical and educational issues and much more The many case examples and vignettes that appear throughout the text illustrate how alternative health care relates to everyday life. The book serves as a primer for an array of health professionals and students as well as provides new insights to those familiar with alternative health practices.

Multicultural Approaches to Health and Wellness in America

Autor: Regan A. R. Gurung

Número de Páginas: 700

Led by a UCLA-trained health psychologist, a team of experts describes non-traditional treatments that are quickly becoming more common in Western society, documenting cultural variations in health and sickness practices to underscore the diversity among human society. This unique two-volume set describes the variety of cultural approaches to health practiced by people of varying cultural heritages and places them in stark context with traditional Western approaches to health care and medicine. Examining health practices such as Ayurveda, an ancient system of medicine that focuses on the body, the sense organs, the mind, and the soul; and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the author examines why these different approaches can explain some of the cultural variations in health behaviors, differences in why people get sick, and how they cope with illness. Traditional health care providers of all kinds—including clinicians, counselors, doctors, nurses, and social workers—will all greatly benefit by learning about vastly different approaches to health, while general readers and scholars alike will gain insight into the rich diversity of world culture and find the material...

Enduring Legacies

Autor: Arturo J. Aldama , Elisa Facio , Daryl Maeda , Reiland Rabaka

Número de Páginas: 441

Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. Enduring Legacies expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasizes the multiplicity of peoples who have inhabited this region. Addressing the dearth of scholarship on the varied communities within Colorado-a zone in which collisions structured by forces of race, nation, class, gender, and sexuality inevitably lead to the transformation of cultures and the emergence of new identities-this volume is the first to bring together comparative scholarship on historical and contemporary issues that span groups from Chicanas and Chicanos to African Americans to Asian Americans. This book will be relevant to students, academics, and general readers interested in Colorado history and ethnic studies.

The Border Healer

Autor: Alberto Salinas, Jr.

Número de Páginas: 161

The Border Healer My Life as a Curandero is one of the most significant contributions of its kind. Alberto Salinas, Jr. a curandero tells his story in the native voice. He tells us about his life and how he became a healer. He explains the spiritual world of El Nino Fidencio, the spiritual realm in which he practices and he shares with us many of his experiences as a working exorcist. He recounts his life growing up as a migrant farm worker in south Texas, marrying, raising children and working as a deputy sheriff before he recognized his calling to spiritual service as a curandero.

Borderlands Curanderos

Autor: Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Número de Páginas: 232

2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College A historical exploration of the worlds and healing practices of two curanderos (faith healers) who attracted thousands, rallied their communities, and challenged institutional powers. Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos—faith healers—who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outside the realm of "professional medicine," seemingly beyond the reach of the church, state, or certified health practitioners whose profession was still in its infancy. Urrea healed Mexicans, Indigenous people, and Anglos in northwestern Mexico and cities throughout the US Southwest, while Jaramillo conducted his healing practice in the South Texas Rio Grande Valley, healing Tejanos, Mexicans, and Indigenous people there. Jennifer Koshatka Seman takes us inside the intimate worlds of both "living saints," demonstrating how their effective healing—curanderismo—made them part of the larger turn-of-the century worlds they lived in as they attracted thousands of followers, validated folk practices, and contributed to a modernizing world along the US-Mexico border. While ...

Health Psychology, 2nd Edition

Autor: Deborah Fish Ragin

Número de Páginas: 513

A truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of health, Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach uses the social ecological perspective to explore the impact of five systems on individual health outcomes: individual, culture/family, social/physical environment, health systems and health policy. In order to provide readers with an understanding of how health affects the individual on a mental and emotional level, the author has taken an interdisciplinary approach, considering the roles of anthropology, biology, economics, environmental studies, medicine, public health, and sociology.

Health Psychology

Autor: Deborah Fish Ragin

Número de Páginas: 733

This textbook takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology. It examines five systems that affect individual health outcomes: individual, family/community, social/physical environment, healthcare systems, and health policy. While grounded in psychology, it incorporates perspectives from anthropology, biology, economics, environmental studies, medicine, public health, and sociology. The social ecological perspective on health psychology creates a depth of understanding of the diverse facets of health. This text also examines health from a global perspective by exploring the impact of infectious and chronic illnesses locally, regionally and globally. This new edition includes updated statistics and references throughout, a new chapter on psychoneuroimmunology, and significant changes and updates to the chapters on health care systems and risky health behaviors. It will be of particular interest to undergraduate students. For additional resources, consult http://routledge.com/9781138201309, where instructors will find downloadable lecture slides, instructor manual, and testbank.

Shamanism

Autor: Mariko Namba Walter , Eva Jane Neumann Fridman

Número de Páginas: 1088

A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across...

Conceptos y prácticas médicas de ruana

Autor: Faust, Franz Xaver

Número de Páginas: 170

Este libro tiene por objeto conocer los conceptos y prácticas medicinales de la población rural de la Colombia andina. Se basó en los estudios de las fuentes literarias pertinentes y en las experiencias y observaciones que el autor realizó durante sus estadías entre los años 1973 y 1981 en diferentes sitios de la geografía colombiana.

Historia de los curanderos

Autor: Ángel Beitia

Número de Páginas: 202

¿Quiénes eran realmente aquellos hombres y mujeres capaces de curar con las manos, la fe o las plantas? ¿Qué secretos, fórmulas o creencias han sobrevivido al paso del tiempo en la medicina popular? ¿Por qué, en pleno siglo XXI, sigue habiendo quien confía en ellos? En Historia de los curanderos, Ángel Beitia nos invita a un viaje por la memoria de los últimos sanadores rurales, figuras envueltas en misterio, devoción y tradición. Desde las cuevas prehistóricas hasta los barrios populares de la posguerra española, pasando por rezos, ungüentos, ritos y «sustos», este libro entrelaza historia, antropología y testimonio oral para revelar un universo muchas veces silenciado. Con rigor, cercanía y una mirada profundamente humana, el autor recupera voces, prácticas y escenarios que todavía resuenan en la cultura popular. Porque hay recetas que no vienen en los libros de medicina, y heridas que no siempre cura una receta médica. Un recorrido tan lleno de escepticismo como de asombro, que te hará mirar de otra manera ese tarro de manzanilla, ese aceite de hierbas o esa vecina que aún “quita el mal de ojo”. «Ángel Beitia ha escrito un libro magnífico, repleto ...

Archivos

Autor: Argentina. Secretaría De Salud Pública

Número de Páginas: 1276

The Oxford Handbook of Latinx Christianities in the United States

Autor: Kristy Nabhan-warren

Número de Páginas: 393

The most comprehensive available overview of Latinx Christianities in the United States, Includes contributions from top scholars of US Latinx Christianities, Offers contributions from a range of perspectives and variety of methodical approaches: historical, sociological anthropological, and theological Book jacket.

Psychological Insights for Understanding Covid-19 and Health

Autor: Robbert Sanderman , Dominika Kwasnicka

Número de Páginas: 174

With specially commissioned introductions from international experts, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series draws together previously published chapters on key themes in psychological science that engage with people’s unprecedented experience of the pandemic. In this volume on health, Dominika Kwasnicka and Robbert Sanderman introduce chapters that explore the crucial topics of health behaviour change, wellbeing, stress, and coping. They highlight the key role digital health technologies can play in how we manage health conditions, and how we facilitate change to help individuals manage stressful situations such as physical isolation, job loss, and financial strain during the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume also offers an important overview of environmental and policy-based approaches to health behaviour change and addresses the highly relevant issues of identity and trust and how they shape the health of individuals, communities, and society. Highlighting theory and research on these key topics germane to the global pandemic, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series offers thought-provoking reading for professionals, students, academics, ...

International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling

Autor: Lawrence H. Gerstein

Número de Páginas: 577

The Handbook of International Counseling is an effort to bring together the current practices, values, attitudes and beliefs about counseling from countries around the globe. The editors have selected leading experts in the field of counseling in a wide and culturally representative group of countries hroughout the world. This book will be the first volume that undertakes such an ambitious goal in the field of counseling.

Wings of Gauze

Autor: Barbara Bair , Susan E. Cayleff

Número de Páginas: 404

Minority women are also less likely to have personal physicians, to have quality health insurance coverage, or to be treated with respect and understanding in negotiating with health care institutions. However, many have as resources belief systems and traditions of caretaking, expertise, and mutual understanding that broaden dominant ways of perceiving well- or ill-being in the world. Thus their stories are about both oppression and empowerment, victimization as well as the strength to reshape and redefine. The emphasis in this collection is on changing perception, giving voice, and addressing the issues of racial discrimination. There is also discussion of solutions: ways to personal empowerment and better health; ways of changing outreach to more equitably instill the benefits of preventive education; ways of altering the structures of care offered through health institutions; and ways to think about self-help.

Celebrating Latino Folklore

Autor: María Herrera-sobek

Número de Páginas: 1438

Latino folklore comprises a kaleidoscope of cultural traditions. This compelling three-volume work showcases its richness, complexity, and beauty. Latino folklore is a fun and fascinating subject to many Americans, regardless of ethnicity. Interest in—and celebration of—Latin traditions such as Día de los Muertos in the United States is becoming more common outside of Latino populations. Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions provides a broad and comprehensive collection of descriptive information regarding all the genres of Latino folklore in the United States, covering the traditions of Americans who trace their ancestry to Mexico, Spain, or Latin America. The encyclopedia surveys all manner of topics and subject matter related to Latino folklore, covering the oral traditions and cultural heritage of Latin Americans from riddles and dance to food and clothing. It covers the folklore of 21 Latin American countries as these traditions have been transmitted to the United States, documenting how cultures interweave to enrich each other and create a unique tapestry within the melting pot of the United States.

Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels

Autor: Marinella Rodi-risberg

Número de Páginas: 267

Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women’s Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women’s literature, which the author calls spiritual trauma narratives, that testify to traumas caused by epistemological violence, wreaked by ongoing colonialism, systematic racism, and marginalization grounded in a binary, hierarchical, and supremacist post-Enlightenment epistemology that negates the spiritual knowledge of interconnectivity found in people of color’s belief systems. Placing trauma theory in productive conversation with women of color feminist studies, Marinella Rodi-Risberg explores literary texts by Chicana, African American, and Native American authors that engage readers in the protagonists’ transformative encounters with ancestral knowledge through symbols, ritual, dreaming, storytelling, and interactions with the natural world. In this way, the author argues, they model a shift in awareness regarding historical and present traumas including slavery, genocide, racial and sexual violence, highlighting the importance of literature as a site of knowledge production and resistance.