Curanderismo Mexican American Folk Healing

Author : Robert T. Trotter,Juan Antonio Chavira
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780820340715

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The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted in native Mexican healing techniques. This is the first book to describe the practice from an insider's point of view, based on the authors' three-year apprenticeships with curanderos (healers). Robert T. Trotter and Juan Antonio Chavira present an intimate view of not only how curanderismo is practiced but also how it is learned and passed on as a healing tradition. By providing a better understanding of why curanderos continue to be in demand despite the lifesaving capabilities of modern medicine, this text will serve as an indispensable resource to health professionals who work within Mexican American communities, to students of transcultural medicine, and to urban ethnologists and medical anthropologists.

Author : Eliseo “Cheo” Torres,Timothy L. Sawyer
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826336415

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Curandero by Eliseo “Cheo” Torres,Timothy L. Sawyer Pdf

Eliseo Torres, known as "Cheo," grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practiced in his home and neighborhood. Later in life, he wanted to know more about the plants and rituals of curanderismo. Torres's story begins with his experiences in the Mexican town of Espinazo, the home of the great curandero El Niño Fidencio (1899-1939), where Torres underwent life-changing spiritual experiences. He introduces us to some of the major figures in the tradition, discusses some of the pitfalls of teaching curanderismo, and concludes with an account of a class he taught in which curanderos from Cuernavaca, Mexico, shared their knowledge with students. Part personal pilgrimage, part compendium of medical knowledge, this moving book reveals curanderismo as both a contemplative and a medical practice that can offer new approaches to ancient problems. From Curandero ". . . for centuries, rattlesnakes were eaten to prevent any number of conditions and illnesses, including arthritis and rheumatism. In Mexico and in other Latin American countries, rattlesnake meat is actually sold in capsule form to treat impotence and even to treat cancer. Rattlesnake meat is also dried and ground and sprinkled into open wounds and body sores to heal them, and a rattlesnake ointment is made that is applied to aches and pains as well."

Author : Robert T. Trotter,Juan Antonio Chavira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311878681

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Author : Brett Hendrickson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479861293

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Border Medicine by Brett Hendrickson Pdf

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

Author : Eliseo “Cheo” Torres
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826339621

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Healing with Herbs and Rituals by Eliseo “Cheo” Torres Pdf

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.

Author : Eliseo Torres
Publisher : Nieves
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023366254

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The Folk Healer by Eliseo Torres Pdf

The book explains for the general reader the history and present practice of curanderismo--Mexican American folk healing practices--and gives biographical sketches of three famous nineteenth century folk healers--Don Pedrito Jaramillo, Nino Fidencio, and Teresita Urrea. Characteristics and training of curanderos, or healers, are discussed and the specialties within curanderismo are explained. Eleven common ailments and symptoms treated by curanderos, rituals used, and folk beliefs dealing with everyday occurrences are described. Sketches of the three folk healers illustrate biographical chapters which recount legends and current practices of their followers as well as biographical information. Modern curanderos are described and their place in the Mexican American community explored. An annotated bibliography listing 10 books about curanderos is included. (LFL)

Author : Elizabeth de la Portilla
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1603440992

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They All Want Magic by Elizabeth de la Portilla Pdf

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.

Author : Ari Kiev
Publisher : New York : Free Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033931739

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Curanderismo; Mexican-American Folk Psychiatry by Ari Kiev Pdf

Author : Atava Garcia Swiecicki
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1597145718

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The Curanderx Toolkit by Atava Garcia Swiecicki Pdf

A practical guide to understanding and using Mexican healing traditions in everyday life Arranging ofrendas. Brewing pericón into a healing tea. Releasing traumas through baños and limpias. Herbalist and curandera Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering this traditional knowledge of curanderismo, Mexican folk healing, which had been marginalized as Chicanx and Latinx Americans assimilated to US culture. She teaches how to follow the path of the curandera, as she herself learned from apprenticing with Mexican curanderas, studying herbal texts, and listening to her ancestors. In this book readers will learn the Indigenous, African, and European roots of curanderismo. Atava also shares her personal journey as a healer and those of thirteen other inspirational curanderas serving their communities. She offers readers the tools to begin their own healing--for themselves, for their relationship with the earth, and for the people. The Curanderx Toolkit includes more than 25 profiles of native and adopted plants of Baja and Alta California and teaches you to grow, know, and love them. This book will help anyone who has lost connection with their ancestors begin to incorporate the herbal wisdom and holistic wellness of curanderismo into their lives. Take the power of ancient medicine into your own hands by learning simple herbal remedies and practicing rituals for kinship with the more-than-human world.

Author : Robert T. Trotter,Juan Antonio Chavira
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820319627

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Curanderismo, Mexican American Folk Healing by Robert T. Trotter,Juan Antonio Chavira Pdf

The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted in native Mexican healing techniques. This is the first book to describe the practice from an insider's point of view, based on the authors' three-year apprenticeships with curanderos (healers). Robert T. Trotter and Juan Antonio Chavira present an intimate view of not only how curanderismo is practiced but also how it is learned and passed on as a healing tradition. By providing a better understanding of why curanderos continue to be in demand despite the lifesaving capabilities of modern medicine, this text will serve as an indispensable resource to health professionals who work within Mexican American communities, to students of transcultural medicine, and to urban ethnologists and medical anthropologists.

Author : Jennifer Koshatka Seman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477321928

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Borderlands Curanderos by Jennifer Koshatka Seman Pdf

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.

Author : Eliseo Torres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792457685

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Curanderismo: The Art of Traditional Medicine Without Borders by Eliseo Torres Pdf

Author : Eliseo Torres
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780826339614

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Healing with Herbs and Rituals by Eliseo Torres Pdf

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.

Author : Antonio Zavaleta,Alberto Salinas Jr,Alberto Salinas (Jr.)
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Healers
ISBN : 9781449000899

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Curandero Conversations by Antonio Zavaleta,Alberto Salinas Jr,Alberto Salinas (Jr.) Pdf

"The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College"--T.p.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:487901774

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Curanderismo by Anonim Pdf