Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Cultural Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Dominican Republic and Cuba

• Main Author: Pešoutová, Jana (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2019
• Subjects: Archaeology; Caribbean islands; healing traditions; Cuba; Dominican Republic; cultural memory; sacred landscape; healing plants; medicinal history; politics of memory; representation of the past; indigenous people of the Caribbean; Caribbean religions
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492. By combining data from critical historical analyses and ethnographic fieldwork, this research examines current healing land...