Deep in Andean valleys on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca live groups of indigenous
healers, the Callahuaya. Herbalists, naturalists and magical healers, they travel by foot …

Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing describes the Mexican healing system of
curanderismo, in an ethnography that illuminates both the practice and the people. The …

En los pueblos indígenas Tu'un savi y Mé'pháá de la montaña de Guerrero se utiliza la
medicina alopática y la medicina tradicional herbolaria, debido a ello, consideramos que …

Curanderismo is a syncretic form of Mexican folk healing whose origins date back to the
Spanish colonization of the Americas. This medical system, drawing from both indigenous …

2 Tomichá, 2002: 368-370; Matienzo et al, 2011: 18ff 3“Al cabo de casi 3 semanas de viaje,
el P. José de Arce llega a los piñocas donde encuentra a algunos nativos enfermos de …

I recently met an eighteen-month-old child and his mom in a Kaqchikel Maya town in
highland Guatemala. The boy had a case of worms, complete with a distended stomach far …

This research is about the work of a group of healers who continue to work in the twenty first
century, in practicing “traditional medicine” in the states of Oaxaca and Puebla Mexico. It …

The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically
and culturally important health care system deeply rooted in native Mexican healing …

The title of this book is a translation of the Ketchwa (Quechua) word ayahuasca, a name
widely used for the hallucinogenic liana Banisteriopsis caapi, the most important of many …

Curanderismo is a healing tradition that combines Pre-Columbian Indigenous religious
beliefs, botanical knowledge, and medical practices with parallel categories of the …