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Evaluating Folk Medicine: Stories of Herbs, Healing, and Healers

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HEALERS OF THE ANDES: KALLAWAYA HERBALISTS AND THEIR MEDICINAL PLANTS. By BASTIENJOSEPH W. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987 Pp. 198. $37.50.)
SPIRITUALIST HEALERS IN MEXICO: SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF ALTERNATIVE THERAPEUTICS. By FINKLERKAJA. (New York: Bergin and Garvey, 1985. Pp. 256. $27.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.)
LA HERBOLARIA EN MEXICO. Edited by MEDELMIRA LINARES. (Mexico City: Dirección General de Extension Académica, Universidad Nacional de México, 1988. Pp. 116.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Janis B. Alcorn
Janis B. Alcorn*
Affiliation:
Agency for International Development
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1990 , pp. 259 - 270
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Copyright © 1990 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. See F. Bruce Lamb, Wizard of the Upper Amazon (Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin, 1974); and Robert L. Carneiro, “Chimera of the Upper Amazon,” in The Don Juan Papers: Further Casteneda Controversies, edited by Richard DeMille (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Ross-Erikson, 1980), 94–98.

2. See Stanley Mitchell, “Introduction” to Walter Benjamin, Understanding Brecht, translated by Anna Bostock (London: New Left Books, 1973), vii–xix.