Tuno El Curandero/Tuno the Healer Maestro De LA Medicina Foklorica En LA Edad Moderna En Peru

This is a translation of conversations between Dr. Jose Gushiken and Eduardo (Tuno) Calderon, a native curandero, or healer of mental, spiritual, and physical disease. Tuno's description of this Table remains one of the most complete discussions of this important gateway into other worlds. Tuno also introduces colleagues and mentors, the practice of the curandero from Peru to Guatemala, family, herbalists, mountain fastnesses. He explains the uses of native plants, some of them with surprising hallucinogenic effects; and other objects with familiar, almost pedestrian provenance, like Tabu perfume, water, rocks, whiskey, or tobacco. This study will interest anthropologists, folklorists, physicians, historians of medicine. Facing page translations.Gushiken, Jose is the author of 'Tuno El Curandero/Tuno the Healer Maestro De LA Medicina Foklorica En LA Edad Moderna En Peru', published 2002 under ISBN 9780773472952 and ISBN 0773472959.