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Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes

Jana Pešoutová • Boek • hardback

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    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 landscapes and their historical background in both countries.

    This dissertation situates the continuous importance of non-institutional healing practices within the rich symbolism of Cuban and Dominican landscapes. More specifically, the study focuses on practices promoting physical, mental and spiritual healing of individuals and communities. It provides various examples that illustrate human interactions with divine and ancestral beings residing in places such as water sources, caverns, or manifested in plants and other natural phenomena. Data presented in this work guides our understanding of how local cultural memory plays a key role in our construction of medicinal histories, and the profound demographic and landscape transformations which shaped the healing landscapes after European conquest. Healing landscapes are also testimonies of the Cuban and Dominican ancestors' creativity, resilience, capacity to heal and find unity in the dehumanizing and alienating atmosphere of colonial violence and exploitation. This book is not aimed solely for academic public, but also those interested in Caribbean cultures, and the history of medicinal practices.


    Contents:

    1. 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

    PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS OF CARIBBEAN LANDSCAPES

    2. Healing Landscapes from a theoretical perspective
    Introduction to landscape studies
    Memory landscapes
    Healing Landscapes

    3. 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

    4. 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

    5. 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
    African ancestors in Cuban ethnogenesis
    Distinctive character of the demographic history of the eastern Cuba
    A brief overview of demographic background of selected Cuban sites
    Revising the indigenous component in demographic histories

    PART II: CONTEMPORARY TRADITIONS

    6. Qualities of the landscape in daily life
    Flora as a source of alimentation
    Concluding remarks

    7. 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

    8. The subaquatic realm of ancestors and other beings
    Dominican Ancestral Subaquatic Dwellings
    Caribbean waterbodies as reservoirs of indigenous past
    Concluding remarks
    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

    10. 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
    Healing landscapes as expressions of cultural memories of indigenous past
    Continuities and heritage loss
    Healing landscapes within landscape theories
    Future directions of research

    Bibliography
    Abstract
    The research and its objectives
    Acknowledgments
    Attachment
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    Binding : Hardback
    Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
    Formaat : Niet bekend
    Aantal pagina's : 390
    Uitgeverij : Sidestone Press Dissertations
    ISBN : 9789088907623
    Datum publicatie : 05-2019
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