INDIGENOUS ANCESTORS AND HEALING LANDSCAPES : cultural memory and intercultural communication ... in the Dominican Republic and Cuba.

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Main Author:	PESOUTOVA, DR. JANA
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : SIDESTONE Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Traditional medicine > Cuba. Traditional medicine > Dominican Republic. Traditional medicine Cuba Dominican Republic Folklore
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Intro; Rhizomes of Healing Landscapes; Colonial discourse and the question of cultural continuity; Forgetting Indigenous Peoples of the Greater Antilles; Approaching Healing Landscapes; Data collection and fieldwork methodology; Ethics; Outline of the dissertation; THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS OF CARIBBEAN LANDSCAPES; Healing Landscapes from a theoretical perspective; Introduction to landscape studies; Memory landscapes; Healing Landscapes; Natural Man in the Caribbean Paradise: the origins of colonial discourse; The noble savage idea in Lesser Antilles
Indigenous past as the beginning of the Dominican nation; Indigenous ancestors during the formation of the Cuban nation; The Indigenous past in Dominican and Cuban History textbooks; The Alienation from Natural Man in the collective memory; Empty Pages in the Biography of Healing Landscapes; Indigenous ancestors transforming Caribbean Landscapes; West African ancestors shaping Caribbean landscapes; European ancestors reshaping Caribbean landscapes; The multidirectional circulation of the medicinal knowledge in the Greater Antilles; Concluding remarks
Crossroads of Cultural landscapes: the Indigenous base of demographic changes; Brief account of Indigenous ancestors in colonial Hispaniola; African ancestors in Dominican demographic history; The interactions among the colonized strata; The subsequent historical development of Dominican society; A brief overview of demographic background of selected Dominican sites; Major tendencies in Cuban ethnogenesis; Colonial history of Indigenous Cuban ancestors; The heterogeneity of the Cuban ancestors of African origin; A brief overview of demographic background of selected Cuban sites
Revising the Indigenous component in demographic histories; CONTEMPORARY TRADITIONS; Qualities of the landscape in daily life; Flora as a source of alimentation; Concluding remarks; Healing in sacred and animated landscapes; Other spiritual beings in Cuban and Dominican landscapes; Illness and cure; Healing specialists; Healing Plants; Ancestral roots and rhizomes; Concluding remarks; The subaquatic realm of ancestors and other beings; Dominican Ancestral Subaquatic Dwellings; Caribbean waterbodies as reservoirs of Indigenous past; Concluding remarks; Re-membering Ancestors in Caves
Mana Landscape; Cave of La Mancha: Healing with Indigenous Lwas; The Cave of Saint Francis as a Healing and Memory Place of Bánica; Healing among Spiritists, Managuaco cavern, Holguín, Cuba; Cueva De los Santos Gibara, Cuba; Cuban and Dominican caverns as memory places of Indigenous past; Concluding remarks; Synthesis and Conclusions. At the Crossroads of Healing Landscapes; Remembrance and Oblivion; Historical formation of Cuban and Dominican Medicinal Cultures; Constituents of healing landscapes; Memory of Indigenous ancestors; Water sources and caves as ancestral places

INDIGENOUS ANCESTORS AND HEALING LANDSCAPES : cultural memory and intercultural communication ... in the Dominican Republic and Cuba.

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