They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing (Volume 16) (Rio Grande/Río Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions)

De La Portilla, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 160344114X / ISBN 13: 9781603441148

Published by Texas A&M University Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing (Volume 16) (Rio Grande/Río Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions)
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160344114X
• ISBN 13: 9781603441148
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Curanderas—traditional healers in Mexican culture—bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence—spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern—dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As a scholar, an ethnographer, and a curandera in training, her parallel perspectives uniquely aid readers in understanding this subordinated culture. Retelling the stories various healers have shared, interpreting their answers to her probing questions, and describing the herbs and recipes they use in their arts, the author vividly illuminates the borderland context of San Antonio. Scholars and readers of anthropology, sociology, Chicana and Chicano studies, and women's studies will savor the many layers of meaning and application in They All Want Magic.

About the Author

ELIZABETH DE LA PORTILLA, an assistant professor of bilingual and bicultural studies in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio, holds a joint appointment in the anthropology department there.