My project conveys the role that individuals\u27 faith in their cultural healing practices plays on their knowledge of the illness and on the actual healing process. More specifically, on how indigenous immigrant communities from Mexico are prone to utilize medical pluralism practices and experience culture-bound syndromes. When individuals migrate they take with them their understanding of disease, their ways to express it, and their ways of finding treatment according to their cultural medical practices. Based on this, I developed a project to explore the medical healing practices of twenty-three year old Claudia Velmontes during her pregnancy. Ms. Velmontes migrated to Boyle Heights ten years ago from a predominantly Zapotec indigenous c...
Background: Botánicas (literally botanies) are local dispensaries that offer spiritual, healing, and...
Western medical systems often fail to recognize and treat culture-bound symptoms within Latinx commu...
Includes bibliographical references and index.Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directl...
My project conveys the role that individuals ' faith in their cultural healing practices plays ...
This participatory action research was designed to create guidelines and strategies to improve the d...
Curanderismo is a healing tradition that combines Pre-Columbian Indigenous religious beliefs, botani...
Following cultural anthropological inquiry, this dissertation examines the adoption of shamanic heal...
As a result of exclusionary state and federal policy decisions on immigration and health care, margi...
As members of the Mexican diaspora acculturate/assimilate to life in the United States they gain ski...
“Preserving Ancient Cultures through Medicinal Narratives” is a comprehensive project that takes an ...
Appendix 4 of final reportTraditional medicine continues to play an important role in health care th...
The authors focus on strategies of therapeutic complementariness carried out by Peruvian immigrants ...
In 2003, the four of us spent several weeks in Calabria, Italy. We interviewed local people about fo...
This thesis looks at the impact of migration and place on the traditional healing knowledge and prac...
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) reports that Latinx continue to...
Background: Botánicas (literally botanies) are local dispensaries that offer spiritual, healing, and...
Western medical systems often fail to recognize and treat culture-bound symptoms within Latinx commu...
Includes bibliographical references and index.Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directl...
My project conveys the role that individuals ' faith in their cultural healing practices plays ...
This participatory action research was designed to create guidelines and strategies to improve the d...
Curanderismo is a healing tradition that combines Pre-Columbian Indigenous religious beliefs, botani...
Following cultural anthropological inquiry, this dissertation examines the adoption of shamanic heal...
As a result of exclusionary state and federal policy decisions on immigration and health care, margi...
As members of the Mexican diaspora acculturate/assimilate to life in the United States they gain ski...
“Preserving Ancient Cultures through Medicinal Narratives” is a comprehensive project that takes an ...
Appendix 4 of final reportTraditional medicine continues to play an important role in health care th...
The authors focus on strategies of therapeutic complementariness carried out by Peruvian immigrants ...
In 2003, the four of us spent several weeks in Calabria, Italy. We interviewed local people about fo...
This thesis looks at the impact of migration and place on the traditional healing knowledge and prac...
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) reports that Latinx continue to...
Background: Botánicas (literally botanies) are local dispensaries that offer spiritual, healing, and...
Western medical systems often fail to recognize and treat culture-bound symptoms within Latinx commu...
Includes bibliographical references and index.Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directl...