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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gonzales, Patrisia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2012.
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.