Healing cultures

Art and religion as curative practices in the Caribbean and its diaspora

Bibliographic Data

ID20007700
EditorsMargarite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Year2001
Publication date2001-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueHealing cultures (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-137-07647-2
OpenAlexW613228923
ISBN9781137076472
LanguageEN
Citations received15

The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the antidotes or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film, cultural and religious studies - bringing together the broad range of beliefs and the spectrum of practices that have sustained the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean

Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Ethnology · Ethos · Expression (computer science) · Modalities · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Law · Literary and Cultural Studies

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