Texas Standard - By W.F. Strong, April 21, 2021 Don Pedrito never took credit for cures. He always said that he didn’t cure anybody. He was only God’s intermediary. My friend of many years, Tony Zavaleta, told me the following story:…
© Antonio N. Zavaleta A Abad, V., Ramos, J., & Boyce, E.,1974, “A Model for Delivery of Mental Health Services to Spanish-speaking Minorities,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 44, 584-595. Abbot, N.C., White, A.R, & Ernst, E. 1996, Complimentary medicine,…
By Antonio N. Zavaleta and Mitchell A. Kaplan Latin America and the Caribbean are home to ancient traditions of shamanism and healing. Indigenous populations paid homage to specialists who learned their arts as child apprentices passed down through the generations.…
By Antonio Noé Zavaleta Introduction The movement of populations to and from their respective homelands marks human history. There are many reasons why people leave their homes, including adventure, persecution, and the attempt to improve the overall human condition. Just as…
Antonio N. Zavaleta, Ph.D. & Mitchell A. Kaplan, Ph.D. The practice of using plant-based entheogenic psychoactive substances as a means of spiritual transcendence is well-documented in the literature of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. Archaeologists who have conducted excavations at Mesoamerican sites…
Dr. Antonio Zavaleta Associate Provost and Professor of Anthropology - The University of Texas at Brownsville Understanding Culture Objective #1 Culture refers to all learned patterns of human behavior including language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions…