Red Medicine : Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing /
From the publisher. Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on h...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : Spiderwoman called up this knowledge
- Anatomy of learning : yauhtli, peyotzin, tobacco, and maguey
- Birth ceremony : storying sacred knowledge
- Ceremony of memory : the call and response
- Ceremony of sweeping : symbols as medicine
- Ceremony of the land Y dónde está tu ombligo?
- Ceremony of time : time as medicine
- Dreaming ceremony : medicine dreams
- Curing ceremony : spiders in her hair
- Ceremony of return.


