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Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Patrisia Gonzales
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Description for Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: MMJT; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
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 how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant ith in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans ... Read more
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 how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant ith in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816529568
SKU
V9780816529568
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