Miguel Perdomo Neira: healing, culture, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes
Inlate April, 1872, the curandero (healer) Miguel Perdomo Neira arrived in Bogotá amid widespread rumors that he had come to heal the terminaIly ill, or lead conservatives in rebellion. The lay healer had traveled from town to town for the previous six years, performing operations and cures that sor...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
1997-01-01
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| Series: | Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/article/view/16550 |