ISBN:
087480423X
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 306 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
DDC:
615.8/82/0985
Keywords:
Sjamanisme
;
Tovenarij
;
Indianer
;
Medizin
;
Indians of South America Medicine
;
Indians, South American
;
Medicine, Traditional
;
Religion and Medicine
;
Shamanism
;
Traditional medicine
;
Schamanismus
;
Medizin
;
Peru
;
Peru Nord
;
Schamanismus
;
Medizin
Abstract:
"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.. - http://www.loc.gov/hlas
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