Latina/o healing practices
By: [edited] by Brain McNeill & Joseph M. Cervantes.
Contributors: McNeill, Brian, 1955-; Cervantes, Joseph Michael.
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415954204
Subjects: Traditional medicine -- United States.; Hispanic Americans -- Religion.; Hispanic Americans -- Medicine.; Traditional medicine -- Latin America.; Latin Americans -- Medicine.; Latin Americans -- Religion.; Spiritual Therapies.; Hispanic Americans.; Medicine, Traditional.; Religion.; Spirituality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: What is indigenous about being indigenous: the mestizo experience / Joseph M. Cervantes; value: Latino/a folk saints and Marian devotions: popular religiosity and healing / Fernando Ortiz and Kenneth G. Davis; value: Santería and the healing process in Cuba and the United States / Brian W. McNeill ... [et al.]; value: Use of psychotropic herbal and natural medicines in Latino and Mestizo populations / Michael Smith and German Ascani; value: Brazil's ultimate healing resource: the power of spirit / Sandra Nuñez; value: La limpia de San Lazaro as individual and collective cleansing rite / Karen V. Holliday; value: Rese un Ave María y ensendi una velita: the use of spirituality and religion as a means of coping with educational experiences for Latina/o college students / Jeanett Castellanos and Alberta M. Gloria; value: Los espiritus siguen hablando: Chicana spiritualities / Lara Medina; value: Religious healing and biomedicine in comparative context / Karen V. Holliday; value: Curanderismo: religious and spiritual worldviews and indigenous healing traditions / Fernando Ortiz Kenith Rice and Brian McNeill; value: Epilogue: summary and future research and practice agendas; value: Jose M. Cervantes and Brian Mcneill.