Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. INTRODUCTION Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo 1
4. PART I SANTA TERESA URREA
5. CHAPTER 1 The Mexican Joan of Arc: Healing and Resistance in the US-Mexico Borderlands 13
6. CHAPTER 2 Laying on of Hands: Espiritismo and Modernity in the Urban Borderlands of San Francisco and Los Angeles 52
7. PART II DON PEDRITO JARAMILLO
8. CHAPTER 3 All Roads Lead to Don Pedrito Jaramillo: Healing the Individual and the Social Body in the South Texas Río Grande Valley 85
9. CHAPTER 4 In the Clutches of Black Magic: Curanderismo and the Construction of a Mexican American Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands 113
10. Conclusion 133
11. APPENDIX Don Pedrito Jaramillo Cure Sample 137
12. Acknowledgments 141
13. Notes 144
14. Bibliography 189
15. Index 216