my cart my cart |

Penguin.ca

Select a link below:
Synopsis
Table of Contents
Review This Book

WOMAN WHO GLOWS IN THE DARK

A CURANDERA REVEALS TRADITIONAL AZTEC SECRETS OF PHYSICAL AND SPI
Elena Avery - Author
Joy Parker - Author
Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Author
$17.50
add to cart view cart
*This is a special-order
and will take approx 4-6 weeks for delivery
Book: Paperback | 154 x 229mm | 352 pages | ISBN 9781585420223 | 16 Apr 2002 | Tarcher | 18 - AND UP
WOMAN WHO GLOWS IN THE DARK
"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. 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


Send this page to a friend