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This study focuses on current healing practices from a cultural memory perspective.

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Author:   Dr. Jana Pešoutová
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
ISBN:  

9789088907623

ISBN 10:   9088907625
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   20 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of 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 Banica Healing among Spiritists, Managuaco cavern, Holguin, 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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Jana Pešoutová was born in Český Brod, Czech Republic in 1987. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in applied linguistics at Palacký University in Olomouc in 2010, she moved to the Netherlands where she completed her Master in the Management of Cultural Diversity. Drawing on theories from social psychology, her master’s thesis focused on the impact of the social exclusion and its relationship with extremism among the youth. From 2013 she carried out her doctoral research as a part of the 1492 Nexus project at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

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