Sorcery and shamanism: curanderos and clients in northern Peru

"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-bas...

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Hauptverfasser: Joralemon, Donald (VerfasserIn), Sharon, Douglas (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Salt Lake City Univ. of Utah Press 1993
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:X, 306 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:087480423X