I have the first doctorate in my family, but I am not the first - TopicsExpress



          

I have the first doctorate in my family, but I am not the first doctor. My great-grandparents were curanderos, yerberas, bone setters, and parteras. I like to reconfigure my letters. For me, PhD means promotora of herbal doctoring, promotora of huevo (egg) doctoring, and promotora of huarache doctoring, in honor of all the elders I have had to keep up with and down montes, pasto, and jungle as they easily maneuvered the terrain in huaraches. They are the barefoot doctors of the Americas, healing bones and breaking fevers and sustos. The hurache doctors are medicos Indigenas, doctors in their own right- root doctors like my great-grandma Concha. Someday, after Ive apprenticed for three decades, I may be able to say my PhD stands for partera and huarache doctor. - Patrisia Gonzales in Red Medicine - Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:23:26 +0000

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