Borderlands Curanderos
The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo. By Jennifer Koshatka Seman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3433817 |
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| Authors | Nathan Ellstrand (Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-84 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/whq/whab122 |
| OpenAlex | W3205282878 |
| Language | EN |
Jennifer Koshatka Seman provides a refreshing new perspective on North American borderlands history in her new book, Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo. She delivers a work on individuals who practiced curanderismo, or faith healing that addressed people’s spiritual, social, psychological, and health needs, on the Mexico-United States border at the turn of the twentieth century. Santa Teresa Urrea utilized her don, or gift of healing, among Mexicans, Anglos, and Indigenous populations throughout northwestern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, whereas Don Pedrito Jaramillo used his among Tejanos and Mexicans in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Seman’s in-depth monograph paints a compelling picture of the lives of the two curanderos Urrea and Jaramillo as they served the needs of the diverse and marginalized populations in and around the border. Borderlands Curanderos advances a subaltern history of the borderlands around...
Art · Epistemology · Ethnology · Faith · Geography · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · Ecology · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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