Sorcery and shamanism
Subtitle: curanderos and clients in northern Peru
By: Donald Joralemon and Douglas Sharon.
Contributors: Sharon, Douglas.
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Traditional medicine -- Peru.; Shamanism -- Peru.; Indians of South America -- Medicine -- Peru.
Description: "Unusual study of northern coastal Peruvian curers centers on their lives and shared cultural ideology, the roots of which derive from indigenous cosmology, not folk Catholicism. Studies curers' philosophy by analyzing four patient accounts and examining their role in social and gender-based conflicts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.