They all want magic
Subtitle: curanderas and folk healing
By: Elizabeth de la Portilla.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Rio Grande/Río Bravo -- no. 16
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: College Station, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781603440998; 9781603441148
Subjects: Hispanic American women healers -- Texas -- San Antonio; Medical anthropology -- Mexican-American Border Region; Healing -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Religious aspects; Herbs -- Therapeutic use; Biculturalism -- Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization
Other titles: Curanderas and folk healing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The road home; title: Living in the borderlands means; title: Work as medicine; title: Curanderismo as a template for a Mexican American world view; title: Healers and their clients; title: La planta es la vida: the cultural life of plants in curanderismo; title: Curanderismo and its possibilities.