Red Medicine Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing

Name: Red Medicine Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
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ISBN: 9780816529568

ISBN-10: 0816529566

ISBN-13: 9780816529568

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: Patrisia Gonzales

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Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant ith in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans and…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction: Spiderwoman Called Up this Knowledge



Anatomy of Learning: Yauhtli, Peyotzin, Tobacco, and Maguey



Birth Ceremony: Storying Sacred Knowledge



Ceremony of Memory: The Call and Response



Ceremony of Sweeping: Symbols as Medicine



Ceremony of the Land ï¿½Y dï¿½nde estï¿½ tu ombligo?



Ceremony of Time: Time as Medicine



Dreaming Ceremony: Medicine Dreams



Curing Ceremony: Spiders in Her Hair



Ceremony of Return


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index