Research Catalog

Title

Remedios : stories of earth and iron from the history of Puertorriqueñas / Aurora Levins Morales.

Author

Levins Morales, Aurora, 1954-

Publication

Boston, MA : Beacon Press, c1998.

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 235 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Replete with herbal lore and tales of heroines whose work and words have sustained generations, Remedios offers the curative history of the many women - and cultures - who have met at the crossroads of the island of Puerto Rico. Beginning with the First Mother in sub-Saharan Africa more than 200,000 years ago, Aurora Levins Morales takes us on a journey through time and around the globe." "Yet the nature of the healing narrative is not limited to the lives of others. Bearing witness to a much larger history of abuse and resistance by women and men, Levins Morales weaves in her own story of pain and healing, the horror of abuse, ameliorated through the restorative power of memory." "Enriched with explanations of the medicinal properties of herbs and foods such as rosemary, ginkgo, and banana, Remedios revives our connection to the forgotten lore of our grandmothers."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Literary collections
• Women > Crimes against
• Puerto Rican women > Literary collections
• Women > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Agradecimientos -- Yerba Bruja -- Revision -- Bisabuelas -- Ginkgo -- First Mother--Sub-Saharan Africa: -200,000 -- Women of Yams--West Africa: -50,000 to 200 -- -50,000: Kindling--African Continent -- -8,000: Forests--Nigeria -- Wild Yam -- -4,000: Colors--West Africa -- -2,000 to 0: Bantu Women Cut Bananas--Africa -- Banana Peel -- 200: Salt--Northwest Africa -- Women of Bread--The Mediterranean: -12,000 to -1,500 -- -12,000: The Deer Mother--El Juyo, Spain -- -6,500: The Peaceful Land--Southeastern Europe -- -6,000: Pig Mother--Europe -- -3,500: Mare's Milk--Ukraine -- -2,700 to -2,000: Deserts--North Africa -- -1,500: Cutting--Northeast Africa -- Morivivi -- Scars -- Women of Yuca--America: -15,000 to 500 -- -15,000: Pikimachay--The Andes -- Potatoes -- -4,000: Rainforests--Upper Amazon and Orinoco Basins -- -4,000: Corn--MesoAmerica -- -1,000 to 500: Temples--Central and North America -- Tobacco -- 0: City Girls: Teotihuacan, Mexico -- 0 to 500: Turtle Women, Women of Trees--The Caribbean -- Abuelas -- West African Women: 600 to 1400 -- 600 to 1400: Market Women--West Africa -- 700: Not All Tribes Build Upward Toward the Sky--Nigeria -- 600 to 1400: Slave Road--Africa -- 1352: Ibn Batuta Writes Home--Mali -- 1440: People, Pepper, Ivory, Gold--West Africa -- American Women: 700 to 1400 -- 700: Mayas--MesoAmerica -- 975: Against the Knife--Mexico -- 1000: Bone and Hair and Shard--North America -- 1400: Caciques--Boriken -- Mediterranean Women: 600 to 1400 -- 620: Arabian Nights--Arabian Peninsula.

ISBN

0807065161 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^98017498^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library