a ISBN 0-8263-3640-X

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number WB925

b Item number .T67 2005

a Personal name Torres, Eliseo.

a Title Curandero :

b Remainder of title a life in Mexican folk healing /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Eliseo "Cheo" Torres ; with Timothy L. Sawyer, Jr.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Albuquerque :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of New Mexico Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c2005.

a Extent ix, 170 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 21 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note The healing tradition of a family and a culture -- The awakening -- I am healed by Doña María -- I face the great black dog -- My father's ancestral wisdom -- Exotic rituals I have known -- Don Pedrito, curandero -- The great materia, Chenchito Alvarado -- The midwife Doña Juana, a partera -- Art Esquibel tells me the story of Teresita, Saint of Cabora -- How I was fed and healed by plants -- Folk healing in this modern world -- Curanderismo goes to school -- Recent curanderos.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Healers

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Healing

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Traditional medicine

a Personal name Sawyer, Timothy L.

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004020692.html