Border medicine : a transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo

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Border medicine : a transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo

Title remainder

a transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo

Statement of responsibility

Brett Hendrickson

Creator

• Hendrickson, Brett

Author

• Hendrickson, Brett

Subject

• Grenzgebiet
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | General
• Healing
• Healing -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Heiler
• History, 19th Century
• History, 20th Century
• History, 21st Century
• MEDICAL -- History
• Medicine, Traditional -- history
• Medizintourismus
• Mexican Americans
• Mexican Americans -- Medicine
• Mexican Americans -- Medicine
• Mexican Americans -- Religion
• Mexican Americans -- Religion
• Mexiko
• North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Spiritual Therapies
• Traditional medicine
• Traditional medicine -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Transnationalisierung
• United States -- ethnology
• University of South Alabama
• Electronic books
• Ethnomedizin

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

Member of

• North American religions

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

973.0468722

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GR111.M49

LC item number

H46 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2015 D-971
• WZ 80.5.H8

Series statement

North American religions