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Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Seman, Jennifer Koshatka

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralMexican History

ISBN10: 1477321918
ISBN13: 9781477321911
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jan 19 2021
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College

A historical exploration of the worlds and healing practices of two curanderos (faith healers) who attracted thousands, rallied their communities, and challenged institutional powers.

Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos-faith healers-who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outside the realm of professional medicine, seemingly beyond the reach of the church, state, or certified health practitioners whose profession was still in its infancy. Urrea healed Mexicans, Indigenous people, and Anglos in northwestern Mexico and cities throughout the US Southwest, while Jaramillo conducted his healing practice in the South Texas Rio Grande Valley, healing Tejanos, Mexicans, and Indigenous people there. Jennifer Koshatka Seman takes us inside the intimate worlds of both living saints, demonstrating how their effective healing-curanderismo-made them part of the larger turn-of-the century worlds they lived in as they attracted thousands of followers, validated folk practices, and contributed to a modernizing world along the US-Mexico border.

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