María Sabina
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María Sabina Magdalena García was a Mazatec sabia and poet who lived in Huautla de Jiménez, a town in the Sierra Mazateca area of the Mexican state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Her healing sacred mus
A photo of María Sabina taken in Huautla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Plate 37 of the Codex Vindobonensis or Yuta Tnoho (Mixtec culture, Late Post-Classic Mesoamerican)
Curandero
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A curandero is a traditional native healer or shaman found primarily in Latin America and also in the United States. A curandero is a specialist in traditional medicine whose practice can either contr
María Sabina
…a story of extraction, cultural appropriation, bioprospecting, and colonization." María Sabina was named by foreigners the first contemporary Mexican curandera to allow Westerners to participate in the healing ritual known as the velada. María Sabina herself stated that she was not a curandera, that she was…
Curandera performing a limpieza in Cuenca, Ecuador
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