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Borderlands Curanderos

Jennifer Koshatka Seman
Borderlands Curanderos Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Koshatka Seman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477321928

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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 she healed, Urrea spoke of a Mexico in which one did not have to obey unjust laws or confess one's sins to Catholic priests. Jaramillo restored and fed drought-stricken Tejanos when the state and modern medicine could not meet their needs. Then, in 1890, Urrea was expelled from Mexico. Within a decade, Jaramillo was investigated as a fraud by the American Medical Association and the US Post Office. Borderlands Curanderos argues that it is not only state and professional institutions that build and maintain communities, nations, and national identities but also those less obviously powerful.

Curandero Conversations

Antonio Zavaleta,Alberto Salinas Jr,Alberto Salinas (Jr.)
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Author : Antonio Zavaleta,Alberto Salinas Jr,Alberto Salinas (Jr.)
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Healers
ISBN : 9781449000899

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Border Medicine

Brett Hendrickson
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Author : Brett Hendrickson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479861293

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Mexican American 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 indigenous and Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the sick person with a variety of healing modalities including herbal remedies, intercessory prayer, body massage, and energy manipulation. Curanderos, “healers,” embrace a holistic understanding of the patient, including body, soul, and community. Border Medicine examines the ongoing evolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. Illuminating the ways in which curanderismo has had an impact not only on the health and culture of the borderlands but also far beyond, the book tracks its expansion from Mexican American communities to Anglo and multiethnic contexts. While many healers treat Mexican and Mexican American clientele, a significant number of curanderos have worked with patients from other ethnic groups as well, especially those involved in North American metaphysical religions like spiritualism, mesmerism, New Thought, New Age, and energy-based alternative medicines. Hendrickson explores this point of contact as an experience of transcultural exchange. Drawing on historical archives, colonial-era medical texts and accounts, early ethnographies of the region, newspaper articles, memoirs, and contemporary healing guidebooks as well as interviews with contemporary healers, Border Medicine demonstrates the notable and ongoing influence of Mexican Americans on cultural and religious practices in the United States, especially in the American West. Instructor's Guide

Border Medicine

Brett Hendrickson
Border Medicine Book PDF

Author : Brett Hendrickson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479834785

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Mexican American 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 indigenous and Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the sick person with a variety of healing modalities including herbal remedies, intercessory prayer, body massage, and energy manipulation. Curanderos, “healers,” embrace a holistic understanding of the patient, including body, soul, and community. Border Medicine examines the ongoing evolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. Illuminating the ways in which curanderismo has had an impact not only on the health and culture of the borderlands but also far beyond, the book tracks its expansion from Mexican American communities to Anglo and multiethnic contexts. While many healers treat Mexican and Mexican American clientele, a significant number of curanderos have worked with patients from other ethnic groups as well, especially those involved in North American metaphysical religions like spiritualism, mesmerism, New Thought, New Age, and energy-based alternative medicines. Hendrickson explores this point of contact as an experience of transcultural exchange. Drawing on historical archives, colonial-era medical texts and accounts, early ethnographies of the region, newspaper articles, memoirs, and contemporary healing guidebooks as well as interviews with contemporary healers, Border Medicine demonstrates the notable and ongoing influence of Mexican Americans on cultural and religious practices in the United States, especially in the American West.

Decolonial Horizons

Raimundo C. Barreto,Vladimir Latinovic
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Author : Raimundo C. Barreto,Vladimir Latinovic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031448393

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Decolonial Horizons by Raimundo C. Barreto,Vladimir Latinovic Pdf

This is the first of two volumes of essays from the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network's 14th International Conference focused on decolonizing churches and theology, addressing oppressions based on gender, racial, and ethnic identities; economic inequality; social vulnerabilities; climate change and global challenges such as pandemics, neoliberalism, and the role of information technology in modern society, all connected with the topic of decolonization. The essays in this volume focus on decoloniality in religious and theological dialogue, migration, history, and education, written from historical, dogmatic, social scientific, and liturgical perspectives.

Curandero Hispanic Ethno-Psychotherapy & Curanderismo

Antonio Noé Zavaleta Ph.D
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Author : Antonio Noé Zavaleta Ph.D
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781665503037

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Curandero Hispanic Ethno-Psychotherapy & Curanderismo by Antonio Noé Zavaleta Ph.D Pdf

Curandero: Ethno-Psychotherapy & Curanderismo Hispanic Mental Health in the 21st Century, is the product of more than 50 years of the study of curanderismo and Hispanic mental health. In this book, Dr. Zavaleta examines curanderismo and the folk beliefs carried by immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. In the United States, the Hispanic population is notoriously underserved in both physical and mental health care. In Curandero, Dr. Zavaleta reviews the history of curanderismo, beginning with pre-Columbian populations, and traces the development of curanderismo over the past 500 years. He also examines the history and practice of psychiatry and the emergence of ethno-psychotherapy as well as psychiatry’s historic failure to incorporate culture in the treatment of the mental health of Hispanic populations. Dr. Zavaleta seeks to introduce curanderismo to psychiatry with the intention of incorporating its important aspects in the treatment of Hispanic mental health.

Sowing the Sacred

Lloyd Daniel Barba
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Author : Lloyd Daniel Barba
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197516560

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"Enter the religious landscape of California's industrial agriculture in the 1940s. Anthropologist Walter Goldschmidt's early 1940s reconnaissance tour of the social scene in the little town of Wasco offers us a composite picture of religious institutions in a typical industrial-ag town in the state. Anthropologists and sociologists of the time pointed to the proliferation of Pentecostal churches as evidence of industrial farming's undesirable social outcomes. In particular, they noted the enthusiastic and emotional expressions of Pentecostal services and how the recently dispossessed Dust Bowl or "Okie" migrants flocked into these churches. By the 1940s, Dorothea Lange's photograph of the Okie "Migrant Mother" capturing the pathos of white plight had surfaced and caught the national spotlight. California, many noted, had a migration problem, as many "undesirables" flooded into the state. Women such as the one captured in Lange's photograph "Revival Mother" standing and worshipping with eyes closed and raised hands in a makeshift garage church typified the poverty of Pentecostals described by the university researchers"--

Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas

Paul Barton
Hispanic Methodists Presbyterians and Baptists in Texas Book PDF

Author : Paul Barton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292782914

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Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas by Paul Barton Pdf

The question of how one can be both Hispanic and Protestant has perplexed Mexican Americans in Texas ever since Anglo-American Protestants began converting their Mexican Catholic neighbors early in the nineteenth century. Mexican-American Protestants have faced the double challenge of being a religious minority within the larger Mexican-American community and a cultural minority within their Protestant denominations. As they have negotiated and sought to reconcile these two worlds over nearly two centuries, los Protestantes have melded Anglo-American Protestantism with Mexican-American culture to create a truly indigenous, authentic, and empowering faith tradition in the Mexican-American community. This book presents the first comparative history of Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Covering a broad sweep from the 1830s to the 1990s, Paul Barton examines how Mexican-American Protestant identities have formed and evolved as los Protestantes interacted with their two very different communities in the barrio and in the Protestant church. He looks at historical trends and events that affected Mexican-American Protestant identity at different periods and discusses why and how shifts in los Protestantes' sense of identity occurred. His research highlights the fact that while Protestantism has traditionally served to assimilate Mexican Americans into the dominant U.S. society, it has also been transformed into a vehicle for expressing and transmitting Hispanic culture and heritage by its Mexican-American adherents.

Folk Saints of the Borderlands

James S. Griffith
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Author : James S. Griffith
Publisher : Rio Nuevo Pub
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1887896511

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Folk Saints of the Borderlands by James S. Griffith Pdf

Presents portraits of unconventional figures in the Borderlands region who gained iconic status in folklore.

All the Agents and Saints

Stephanie Elizondo Griest
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Author : Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781469631608

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All the Agents and Saints by Stephanie Elizondo Griest Pdf

After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation's foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. The frequency of these tragedies seemed like a terrible coincidence, before Elizondo Griest moved to the New York / Canada borderlands. Once she began to meet Mohawks from the Akwesasne Nation, however, she recognized striking parallels to life on the southern border. Having lost their land through devious treaties, their mother tongues at English-only schools, and their traditional occupations through capitalist ventures, Tejanos and Mohawks alike struggle under the legacy of colonialism. Toxic industries surround their neighborhoods while the U.S. Border Patrol militarizes them. Combating these forces are legions of artists and activists devoted to preserving their indigenous cultures. Complex belief systems, meanwhile, conjure miracles. In All the Agents and Saints, Elizondo Griest weaves seven years of stories into a meditation on the existential impact of international borderlines by illuminating the spaces in between and the people who live there.

Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands

Milo Kearney,Manuel Medrano
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Author : Milo Kearney,Manuel Medrano
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1585441325

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Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands by Milo Kearney,Manuel Medrano Pdf

Their respective ancestral cultures in England and Spain, argue scholars Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano, had common roots in medieval Europe, and both their conflicts and the shared understandings that may form the basis for their cooperation trace back to those days."--BOOK JACKET.

The Mexican American Experience in Texas

Martha Menchaca
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Author : Martha Menchaca
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477324370

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The Mexican American Experience in Texas by Martha Menchaca Pdf

A historical overview of Mexican Americans' social and economic experiences in Texas For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in Texas have fought against political oppression and exclusion—in courtrooms, in schools, at the ballot box, and beyond. Through a detailed exploration of this long battle for equality, this book illuminates critical moments of both struggle and triumph in the Mexican American experience. Martha Menchaca begins with the Spanish settlement of Texas, exploring how Mexican Americans’ racial heritage limited their incorporation into society after the territory’s annexation. She then illustrates their political struggles in the nineteenth century as they tried to assert their legal rights of citizenship and retain possession of their land, and goes on to explore their fight, in the twentieth century, against educational segregation, jury exclusion, and housing covenants. It was only in 1967, she shows, that the collective pressure placed on the state government by Mexican American and African American activists led to the beginning of desegregation. Menchaca concludes with a look at the crucial roles that Mexican Americans have played in national politics, education, philanthropy, and culture, while acknowledging the important work remaining to be done in the struggle for equality.

Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614

Brian A. Catlos
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Author : Brian A. Catlos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521889391

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Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 by Brian A. Catlos Pdf

An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.

Courage Above All Things

Harwood P. Hinton,Jerry Thompson
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Author : Harwood P. Hinton,Jerry Thompson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806167992

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For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784–1869) was one of America’s most illustrious figures—most notably as an officer in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he assumed command of the Department of the East, Wool had been a brigadier general for twenty years and, at age seventy-seven, was the oldest general on either side of the conflict. Courage Above All Things marks the first full biography of Wool, who aside from his unparalleled military service, figured prominently in many critical moments in nineteenth-century U.S. history. At the time of his death in 2016, Harwood Hinton, a scholar with an encyclopedic knowledge of western history, had devoted fifty years to this monumental work, which has been completed and edited by the distinguished historian Jerry Thompson. This deeply researched and deftly written volume incorporates the latest scholarship to offer a clear and detailed account of John Ellis Wool’s extraordinary life—his character, his life experiences, and his career, in wartime and during uneasy periods of relative peace. Hinton and Thompson provide a thorough account of all chapters in Wool’s life, including three major wars, the Cherokee Removal, and battles with Native Americans on the West Coast. From his distinguished participation in the War of 1812 to his controversial service on the Pacific coast during the 1850s, and from his mixed success during the Peninsula Campaign to his overseeing of efforts to quell the New York City draft riots of 1863, John Ellis Wool emerges here as a crucial character in the story of nineteenth-century America—complex, contradictory, larger than life—finally fully realized for the first time.

Theatre of the Borderlands

Iani del Rosario Moreno
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Author : Iani del Rosario Moreno
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739168677

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Theatre of the Borderlands by Iani del Rosario Moreno Pdf

Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories write about theater. The plays analyzed in this study are representative of the most important Northern Border playwrights whose plays’ themes present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a socio-historical and political context. The most important themes observed include topics that engage in discussions of: the indigenous, Border crossings, heroes and folk saints, the city of Tijuana, and violence in the Borderlands, to name a few. These themes have led to the birth of the Teatro del Norte movement, a group of determined playwrights insistent on presenting dramaturgical themes that show the bond between their particular geographies, histories, socio-political and economic situations, thereby giving birth to an original voice and new aesthetic of representation. Dealing with the topics already mentioned, and pairing them with more timely ones like immigration reform, namely, this study can serve as an invaluable resource to many interdisciplinary academic settings, and can grant an eye-opening insight to Border relations through several critical readings.