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Niño Fidencio Internet Links
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Links to other websites of interest:

Traditional Medicine/ Curanderismo with the Hispanic/ Latino Population (Powerpoint) click here

Curanderismo Holistic Healing PFD click here

Herbal Medicine: Internet Resources- Alternative Medicine

The UCSF Guide to Intergrative Medicine

Curanderismo: The hands of Guadalupe by Stephen Mines, Ph.D.

Between Two Worlds: Mental Health care for Latinos

The Miracle Man: John of God - Healer - Brazil

Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America

CURANDERISMO: FOLK HEALING IN THE MEXICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY - Traditional folk healing practices continue to be viable and prevalent in the Mexican American community. The study of curanderismo and related folk medical practices encompasses several disciplines: anthropology, folklore, sociology, psychology, medicine, and history.

HEALING HANDS: Traditional Folk Medicine of the Big Bend Region

Curanderismo.net Welcome to the Curanderismo Research Project. This is part of an effort being conducted by a group of amateur researchers and interested persons who belong the the e-mail community "1curanderismo", and by Fausto's Art Gallery, in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico.

New:
Major Publications in Medical Anthropology. Compiled by Dennis Wiedman, PhD. From Florida International University.

Articles Available On-line:
"Sacred Heart Image Reveals Miracle to Matamoros Family" by Aurora Orozco. This is a recent article available via the internet
from the Brownsville Herald. 

Folk Healers
A site developed by Evelyn Jeffers that mentions El Niño Fidencio and talks about curanderismo at length. 

Espinazo, Mexico: Students study the life and spirit of El Niño Fidencio This page is via University Currents from What's
New at A&M Corpus Christi. Includes pictures.

Mexicans walk (and roll) with deceased psychic healer into the new millennium An article available from www.beliefnet.com. 

Essay:
El Niño Fidencio This page is part of a larger site entitled: Ensayos sobre: FILOSOFÍA, ÉTICA, HISTORIA, RELIGIÓN y
POLÍTICA created and maintained by Ing. Raul Cadena Cepeda. The essay about El Niño Fidencio is written by Ing. Raul
Cadena Cepeda. *This site is only available in Spanish.*

Response to Cabeza de Vaca's Narratives in Regard to Healing Methods and His Role as a  Folk Healer as Compared
with Three Curanderos (A Position Paper) By Eliseo Torres of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The article refers to El Niño Fidencio and Don Pedrito Jaramillo.

Praying to the healers
By Mary Lee Grant of the on-line newspaper Corpus Christi Times on-line.

La Nueva Tragedia de Yucatan: Cervera Pacheco, El Nuevo "Niño Fidencio" La Revista Peninsular, Edición 405  25 de Julio
de 1997. Mérida, Yucatán, México This article mentions el El Niño Fidencio. Only available in Spanish.

Audio:
On Saturday, Nov. 14th, the NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon did a program on El Niño Fidencio. *We've had a little
difficulty linking directly to the page with the program, so we've changed the link. Click on the following link: Weekend Saturday,
once at the page click on "Archives" and then "November 4, 2000." This will take you to the page containing the program
entitled:  "José Fidencio Constantino." *Scroll down to "José Fidencio Constantino" to listen to the program.*

Photo Exhibits:
Dore Gardner's Photo Exhibit A bilingual page by Dore Gardner.

Films:
"El Mercado Sonora: A Traditional Healers Market." This film was completed in 1998 and is produced by Antonio N. Zavaleta,
Monica Delgado and Michael Van Wagenan, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville,
Texas. Video 16:00 minutes. It takes you to the heart of a traditional healers market in Mexico City.

Spirit Doctors. Completed in 1996: This film explores the phenomena of Mexican-American folk healing. Three contemporary
healers are followed in their daily work of serving the poor in a southern Texas barrio. Spirit channeling, herbs and midwives
are shown to be an important part of the culture of the American Southwest.