Continuing on the Journey with Elena, Part Three
Diego Rivera, El Curandero I am returning to repair and patch back up what has been left out of my last pieces of work on the ethnography I undertook about Elena Avila, a curandera from El Paso and New Mexico, who made a signficant impact on many lives in the US southwest and beyond, with her contribution to the revival of traditional Meso-American medicines. I say that there is an element of repair, because so much gets lost in the scholarly writing process, including much of the material that we begin with, knowledge that is not deemed acceptable by the academy, or which is authentically edited out by the researcher. I share this in the spirit of honoring every aspect of the work I have done, not just the final This writing project was initially intended as type of descriptive article that would touch on the ways in which she had been an integrator of discourses (medical, scientific, and cultural ones, to name a few), combining my personal experience with her, ethnographic interviews...