Gift of Life Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru

Name: Gift of Life Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
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ISBN: 9780826318930

ISBN-10: 0826318932

ISBN-13: 9780826318930

Edition: 1998

Authors: Bonnie Glass-Coffin

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In this uniquely personal account of the lives and healing arts of female shamans in northern Peru, the author alternates diaristic writings about her own experiences with ethnographic description. Her analytical essays explore the concepts of sorcery, shamanism, and witchcraft, case studies of Peruvian women and their ritual healing techniques, the healers' religious and symbolic space, and the healing attributes unique to women. They alternate with chapters in which Glass-Coffin describes her introduction to Peru as a high school student, the traditional roles she adopted in her host family, the crisis that rocked her identity, her first ritual contact with a female healer, and her own…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 3/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.03" wide x 8.48" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.946



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Sorcery and Dependence



Madre, Mujer, Bruja



A Call to Healing



Healers at Work



The Spiritual Tools of Healing



Gender, Healing, and Experience


Epilogue


Notes


Glossary of Spanish Terms and place Names


References


Index