Eduardo the Healer
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1992.11.1
name: label: Collection Film distributor
content: Pennsylvania State University. Audio-Visual Services
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content: Penn State educational film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound; 1180 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents the life story of Peruvian, Eduardo Calderon, a fisherman, sculptor, and curandero (healer) in northern Peru. He is filmed with his teacher, assistants, and a woman selling herbal remedies and hallucinogenic cactus. He is shown conducting and explaining a curing ceremony and discussing the important cultural relation that his curing has with the pre-Columbian civilization. See also full film record, Eduardo the Shaman: A Case Study of Culture and Hallucinogens, from which this film was produced.

Legacy Keywords: Cowan, Richard ; South America