JOURNAL ARTICLE

Borderland Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo.

  • Published In: American Anthropologist, 2023, v. 125, n. 1. P. 204 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Loewe, Ronald 3 of 3

Abstract

I Borderlands Curanderos i eloquently describes the life and times of two "faith" healers, Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo, who grew up in Mexico and practiced their craft in the borderlands of Texas, Arizona, and California during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fortunately, Jaramillo had one powerful ally, J. T. Canales, a South Texas lawyer and legislator whose mother had been cured by Jaramillo after two physicians had tried and failed. In this case, I think the story in this short book might be carried forward by including a better description of Niño Fidencio, a later folk healer who, thanks to his successful treatment of President Plutarco Calles, is arguably better known than either Urrea or Jaramillo. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:American Anthropologist. 2023/03, Vol. 125, Issue 1, p204
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Biography
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0002-7294
  • DOI:10.1111/aman.13795
  • Accession Number:162398616
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