#280
Title: Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
Authors: Rosita Arvigo with Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Year: 1994
Country: Belize
214 pages
My edition has this title; the edition linked has a slightly different title.
This documentary memoir describes the author's intention to live off the land and practice non-allopathic medicine in Belize. There she met a Mayan healer, apprenticed to him, and carries on his work. It's interesting to watch her commitment to her life and profession in her adopted country grow. I appreciated her balance of syncretic spiritual and scientific aspects of her work, including those aspects where she acknowledges that she does not believe--a refreshing change in this genre.
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