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Title They all want magic [electronic resource] : curanderas and folk healing / Elizabeth de la Portilla.

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College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	x, 147 p.
Series	Rio Grande/Rio Bravo ; no. 16
	Rio Grande/Rio Bravo ; no. 16.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The road home -- Living in the borderlands means -- Work as medicine -- Curanderismo as a template for a Mexican American world view -- Healers and their clients -- La planta es la vida: the cultural life of plants in curanderismo -- Curanderismo and its possibilities.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Hispanic American women healers -- Texas -- San Antonio.
	Medical anthropology -- Mexican-American Border Region.
	Healing -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Religious aspects.
	Herbs -- Therapeutic use.
	Biculturalism -- Mexican-American Border Region.
	Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title	Curanderas and folk healing
ISBN	9781603440998 (cloth : alk. paper)
	1603440992 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9781603441148 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	160344114X (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9781603443739 (electronic bk.)