Elena Avila, Joy Parker, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Woman Who Glows in the Dark

A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An autobiographical account of how a psychiatric nurse specialist became a folk medicine healer; this also explains the origins and practice of one of the oldest forms of medicine in the New World."-Kirkus.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Publishing Group
• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9781585420223
• ISBN-10: 1585420220
• Artikelnr.: 21656641

Autorenporträt

Elena Avila

Inhaltsangabe

Woman Who Glows in the Dark Introduction
In the Beginning
Chapter 1. Curanderismo: Health Care for the Body and Soul
Chapter 2. Doctora Corazón: The Training of a Curandera
Chapter 3. Tools and Ceremonies of a Curandera
Chapter 4. The Weeping Soul
Chapter 5. The Twisted Heart
Chapter 6. Apprenticeship: Student Teacher, Teacher Student
7. The Gods That Refused to Die: The Future of the Medicine of the People
Index