Laying-on Hands
Santa Teresa Urrea’s Curanderismo as Medicine and Refuge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3942113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Koshatka Seman (Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-200 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0008429817739462 |
| OpenAlex | W2775018013 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
This essay examines the ways Teresa Urrea - a curandera or Mexican faith healer - was understood by those she healed as well as the popular presses of the turn of the century as she moved out of the US-Mexico borderlands and into urban centers of San Francisco, New York City, and especially Los Angeles. Santa Teresa's curanderismo was a cultural refuge for ethnic Mexicans who faced an increasingly racialized and antagonistic public health system in Los Angeles. At the same time, her curanderismo - exemplified by the practice of "laying on hands" - shared epistemologies with scientific medicine and other healing modalities, such as Spiritism, allopathic medicine, and indigenous healing arts. For those who lived in the liminal space between two nations and two cultures, Santa Teresa's curanderismo provided both practical and magical medicine for the body and spirit
Art · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Faith · Indigenous · Liminality · Modalities · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Race, History, and American Society
Brought to Bed
Internal Colonialism and Gender
Ghosts of Futures Past
Thread of Blood
Hour of Eugenics
Cycles of Conquest
Aliens in Their Native Lands
Borderlands/La Frontera
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
Devoted to DeathSanta Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
Borderline Americans
Mexican American Religions
Continental Crossroads
Curanderismo
Eugenic Nation
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion
Sympathy and Science
Mayo EthnobotanyLand, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico
Borderlands Saints
Haunted by Empire
Toward a Comparative History of Borderlands
Unspeakable Violence
Revolution in Texas
Chicano Folk Medicine from Los Angeles, California
The Mayo Indians of Sonora
Manliness and Civilization
Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |