Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora

The Spanish expression—la cultura cura(culture heals)—is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Culturesaddresses these questions from a variety of disciplines—anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film, cultural and religious studies—bringing together the broad range of beliefs and the spectrum of practices that have sustained the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean.