An edition of Healing dramas (2009)
Healing dramas
divination and magic in modern Puerto Pico
By Raquel Romberg
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Publish Date
2009
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Language
eng
Pages
303
Description:
In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and their effectiveness in transforming the states of participants by focusing on the visible, albeit mostly obscure, ways in which healing and magic rituals proceed. The questions posed by Romberg emerge directly from the particular pragmatics of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing), shaped by the eclecticism of its rituals, the heterogeneous character of its participants, and the heterodoxy of its moral economy.