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curandera

(ko͞o′rən-dâr′ə)
n.
A woman who practices folk medicine; an herb doctor.
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Noteworthy in her testimony is that Ynes Maria, whom Francisca refers to as a curandera (healer), is mentioned as a witness to the incident involving her child.
“I went into the red-tiled kitchen where she was preparing her 'bitter tea', a disagreeable brew a Curandera advised her to take for parasites in her intestines.
(34) The curandera, or wise woman, in contemporary Chicana/Latina culture continues to embody that tradition.
La curandera solitaria pasa a ser la rebelde, empujada por el duro peso de la ferula colonial" (Gomez, 1993: 107).
Mas adelante, en 1947, Di Lullo sostiene que la curandera es una persona que cumple una gran funcion social en el campo santiagueno.
Domecq refuerza esta intencion de no desmesurar la dimension de Teresa hacia la pura milagreria, mejor aun se mantiene a Teresa como personaje de novela de la modernidad, dentro de cierta mediania protagonica, historiografica, lo cual se hace evidente al disminuir la magnitud de curandera prodigiosa a nivel regional, cuando en realidad, segun documenta Paul Vanderwood, alcanzo fama internacional en los Estados Unidos, Puerto Rico, Europa y Sudamerica, desde donde llegaban por miles a Cabora (170).
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