Healing Cultures
Subtitle: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora
Contributors: Margarite Fernandez Olmos (Editor); Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312218980
Subjects: Anthropology - Cultural; Sociology - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Ethnic Studies - General; Philosophy; Sociology; Blacks; Caribbean Area; Healing; Religious aspects; Traditional medicine; Religion
First sentence: In the Latino barrios of many U.S. metropolitan centers, there are establishments that bewilder the inexperienced passerby: botanicas.