Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora

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 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.

Author: Na Na
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/07/2001
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780312218980

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 69

About the Author
Margarite Fernández Olmos is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Literature at Vassar College.