The Shaman Meets The Poet: María Sabina And The Curative Powers Of Language
2009 Viviana Díaz Balsera 1 citation
This chapter discusses how Maria Sabina embodies the deep-seated legacy of a Mesoamerican competence to encompass and endure that since the colonial period has been laboring to conserve pockets of the pre-Hispanic realm of the sacred, amidst careful observance of the dominant, transcontinental Christian pantheon. Although the historical record is lean and much of it comes from post-Conquest...