Cuadernos volume I issue 3 - La Curandera
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- Title
- Cuadernos volume I issue 3 - La Curandera
- Description
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The year 2020 was defined by the COVID-19 global pandemic, which decimated many Manito families and communities. In response, the Manito Community Memory Project (MCMP), with support from the American Recovery Act, National Endowment for the Humanities, initiated a series of publications, designed and illustrated by two MCMP graphic design interns, to help Manitos address the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic through connection to their history, cultural heritage, and to each other. The cuaderno format pays homage to the small journals or notebooks traditionally used by Manitos to record all kinds of information.
La Curandera, Volume One, Issue Three of the publication series, lists twenty curanderas, traditional healers, and reprints an edited excerpt from a story collected by Lou Sage Batchen in 1940 in Placitas, New Mexico, as part of the Federal Writers’ Project. The cuaderno connects the COVID-19 crisis to traditional healing practices that center on the curative properties of local herbs and medicinal plants and honors the important role of traditional healers to their communities.
The cover image depicts a curandera in the foreground holding a basket with herbs picked from her garden. In the background is her traditional adobe home with an herb drying rack set against a backdrop of a field of herbs and the mountains of the Taos Valley, all framed within a border of blue flowers. - Rights Holder
- Manitos Community Memory Project
- Creator
- Manitos Community Memory Project, Estevan Rael-Galvez, Project Director
- Type
- Image
- Date Created
- 2021
- Format
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Manitos Community Memory Project
- Contributor
- Mimi Roberts, Project Manager
- Shane Flores, Project Researcher
- Natasha Vasquez, Graphic Artist
- Lily Padilla, Graphic Artist
- Mariah Fox Hausman, Graphc Arts Mentor
- Spatial Coverage
- Northern New Mexico & Southern Colorado
- Item sets
- Manitos Cuaderno Series
