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

Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its DiasporaThe 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,

Baker develops a “womanist artistic standpoint” theory

and intense debates

Bey remained a prominent fixture in the community

and the consequences if they failed

Zellar reveals how African people functioned as warriors

and Amsterdam

Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile

while the other was published only in reduced form

Classical civilization

Austin Channing Brown

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