The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru

The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
ISBN-10
0826318932
ISBN-13
9780826318930
Category
Social Science
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
UNM Press
Author
Bonnie Glass-Coffin

Description

In a 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. These alternate with chapters in which she describes the crisis that rocked her identity, her first contact with a female healer, and her own tumultuous but ultimately rewarding healing journey under two female shamans. 17 photos.

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