Healing Like Our Ancestors

Healing Like Our Ancestors
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780816550227
ISBN-13 : 0816550220
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Healing Like Our Ancestors by : Edward Anthony Polanco

Download or read book Healing Like Our Ancestors written by Edward Anthony Polanco and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish settlers attempted to uproot Indigenous Nahua healing practices in the process of creating and protecting the settler colony of New Spain. By using primary sources written in Spanish and Nahuatl this book shows how Nahua people's understood their healers and the ways in which they survived, but were altered by, Spanish attacks"--


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