Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. to Anahuac

by Paloma Martínez-Cruz

Paloma Martinez-Cruz argues that the medicine traditions of Mesoamerican women constitute a hemispheric intellectual lineage that continues to thrive despite the legacy of colonization. Martinez-Cruz asserts that indigenous and mestiza women healers are custodians of a knowledge base that remains virtually uncharted. The few works looking at the knowledge of women in Mesoamerica generally examine only the written--even academic--world, accessible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529426
• ISBN13: 9780816529421
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"