2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at
South Texas College Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo
were curanderos-faith healers-who, in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, worked outside the realm of "professional
medicine," seemingly beyond the reach of the church, state, or
certified health practitioners whose profession was still in its
infancy. Urrea healed Mexicans, Indigenous people, and Anglos in
northwestern Mexico and cities throughout the US Southwest, while
Jaramillo conducted his healing practice in the South Texas Rio
Grande Valley, healing Tejanos, Mexicans, and Indigenous people
there. Jennifer Koshatka Seman takes us inside the intimate worlds
of both "living saints," demonstrating how their effective
healing-curanderismo-made them part of the larger turn-of-the
century worlds they lived in as they attracted thousands of
followers, validated folk practices, and contributed to a
modernizing world along the US-Mexico border. While she healed,
Urrea spoke of a Mexico in which one did not have to obey unjust
laws or confess one's sins to Catholic priests. Jaramillo restored
and fed drought-stricken Tejanos when the state and modern medicine
could not meet their needs. Then, in 1890, Urrea was expelled from
Mexico. Within a decade, Jaramillo was investigated as a fraud by
the American Medical Association and the US Post Office.
Borderlands Curanderos argues that it is not only state and
professional institutions that build and maintain communities,
nations, and national identities but also those less obviously
powerful.
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