María Cristina Moroles, Lauri Umansky

Águila

The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains

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Produktbeschreibung

""âAguila" tells the astonishing life story of Marâia Cristina Moroles, a healer and shaman who has spent the past fifty years in the Arkansas Ozarks, where she oversees a healing sanctuary for women and children of color on a five-hundred-acre wilderness preserve. Moroles vividly recounts the events that earned her the ceremonial names 'SunHawk' and 'âAguila' as well as her efforts to build a sustainable community off the grid"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 163mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781682262436
• ISBN-10: 168226243X
• Artikelnr.: 68772250

Autorenporträt

María Cristina Moroles is matriarch of Arco Iris, a healing sanctuary in the Ozark Mountains originally established for women and children of color and the queer community and now open to all people seeking healing. Moroles lives on the five-hundred-acre wilderness preserve in community with her children, Jennifer and Mario; visiting students; and other resident stewards. Also known by the ceremonial name Águila, she incorporates her Indigenous and Mexican American heritage in her work as a curandera, master massage therapist, and shaman. She is co-founder of the Arco Iris Earth Care Project. Lauri Umansky teaches history and directs the Heritage Studies PhD Program at Arkansas State University. Her books include Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties, Naked Is the Best Disguise (pseud. Lauri Lewin), "Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America, Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, and The New Disability History: American Perspectives.