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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"curandera"”.
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Reclamando Corazón y Voz: Latinas Speak Their Truth Through Plática as Resistance in California Community College Learning Disabilities Assessments
… in <em>consideración</em>, <em>educadora curandera</em> praxis enabled restoration through witnessing, holding, and repair.</p> <p>Together, these findings positioned LD assessments as sites of wounding and <em>pláticas</em> as pathways toward reclamation. This dissertation offered CFDC, …
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Gypsy fortune-telling in Houston: the study of a profession
… she may pose as a Catholic Sister or as a curandera. The same practitioner may advertise simultaneously to all three groups. Case histories were obtained from former clients of Gypsies as well as ten subjects who responded by telephone to a Gypsy-type advertisement that was placed by the …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
… to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera. Interior dialogues with the Other, whether framed as the voice of the Logos, an alien download, or communion with ancestors and spirits, are relatively common. Sentient visual languages are encountered, their forms unrelated to the …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
<p>This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' <em>Balún-Canán</em> and Rudolfo Anaya's <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow …