Healing dramas
Subtitle: divination and magic in modern Puerto Pico
By: Raquel Romberg.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780292706583
Subjects: Magic -- Puerto Rico; Divination -- Puerto Rico; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Puerto Rico
Description: In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and their effectiveness in transforming the states of participants by focusing on the visible, albeit mostly obscure, ways in which healing and magic rituals proceed. The questions posed by Romberg emerge directly from the particular pragmatics of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing), shaped by the eclecticism of its rituals, the heterogeneous character of its participants, and the heterodoxy of its moral economy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : healing dramas; title: A flight perfected at death : mimetic memories of a brujo; title: Dreams; title: Drama; title: Spiritual time; title: The sentient body; title: Space; title: Epilogue : a farewell trabajo.