Healing cultures
Subtitle: art and religion as curative practices in the Caribbean and its diaspora
By: edited by Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Contributors: Fernández Olmos, Margarite; Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Traditional medicine -- Caribbean Area; Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Religion; Healing -- Religious aspects; Medicine and art -- Caribbean Area; Caribbean Area -- Social life and customs
Description: "The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture?

Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film, cultural and religious studies - bringing together the broad range of beliefs and the spectrum of practices that have sustained the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-232)