{"id":26532,"date":"2017-01-06T07:44:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=26532"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:41:50","slug":"womens-healers-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/womens-healers-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Aboriginal Women Healers in the Caribbean and its Diasporas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cedar \/ Spruce Rooms<br \/>\nErb Memorial Union (EMU)<br \/>\n1222 E. 13th. Ave.<br \/>\nUO campus<\/p>\n<p><strong>A CLLAS Faculty Grantee presentation by Alai Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies) and Ana Lara (Anthropology)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professors Alai Reyes-Santos and Ana-Maurine Lara will discuss \u201cAfro-Aboriginal Women Healers in the Caribbean and its Diasporas\u201d in a CLLAS Faculty Grantee talk at the EMU on May 17 at 3:30 p.m. This talk focuses on their interdisciplinary study examining Caribbean women\u2019s roles in Afro-Indigenous healing traditions and how this healing work contributes to healers\u2019 empowerment in their communities. Research sites include the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24280\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/book-release-celebration\/reyes-santos-profilepicture2013\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24280\" class=\" wp-image-24280\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Reyes-Santos-Profilepicture2013-300x224.gif\" alt=\"\" height=\"178\" width=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Reyes-Santos-Profilepicture2013-300x224.gif 300w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Reyes-Santos-Profilepicture2013-150x112.gif 150w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Reyes-Santos-Profilepicture2013-260x195.gif 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Reyes-Santos-Profilepicture2013-160x120.gif 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ala\u00ed Reyes-Santos<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20646\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/santa-afro-diasporic-ways-knowing-cllas-visiting-scholar-ana-maurine-lara\/ana-maurine-lara\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20646\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20646\" class=\" wp-image-20646\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ana-Maurine-Lara.gif\" alt=\"\" height=\"178\" width=\"130\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana-Maurine Lara<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Professor Lara is an anthropology professor and ethnographer and Professor Reyes-Santos is a professor of ethnic studies trained in literary and cultural studies.<\/p>\n<p>The study draws on their methodological areas of expertise to incorporate a) analysis of cultural narratives centering Caribbean women healers and b) ethnographic research among Caribbean women healers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by the Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedar \/ Spruce Rooms Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th. Ave. UO campus A CLLAS Faculty Grantee presentation by Alai Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies) and Ana Lara (Anthropology) Professors Alai Reyes-Santos and Ana-Maurine Lara will discuss \u201cAfro-Aboriginal Women Healers in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/womens-healers-caribbean\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,36,17,5,40],"tags":[314,304,306,158],"class_list":["post-26532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-diasporas","category-events","category-faculty-affiliates","category-research","category-women-of-color-project","tag-alai-reyes-santos","tag-ana-maurine-lara","tag-cllas","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32951,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532\/revisions\/32951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}