Healing Cultures

Description:

"The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film, cultural and religious studies - bringing together the broad range of beliefs and the spectrum of practices that have sustained the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Medicine and art,  Social life and customs,  Traditional medicine,  Blacks,  Religion,  Healing,  Art,  Religious aspects,  Culture,  Mental healing,  Medicine�,  Traditional medicine, caribbean area,  Blacks, religion,  Healing, religious aspects,  Caribbean area, social life and customs,  Black people,  Religion and Medicine

Places: Caribbean Area