The story you are about to read is true; it details a personal fable based on Mayan-Huastecan folklore and my personal experiences as an anthropologist. To date, the story spans fifty years and has a life of its own, weaving…
I am very honored to have been invited to speak to you today, by my dear friends, The Honorable Rodolfo Quilantan and his wife Patricia Tapia Quilantan, Mexican Consul at Little Rock Arkansas and formerly at Brownsville, Texas. I have…
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:…
BIG LATIN NEWS - POSTED ON 2.28.21 Constanzo fue bautizado por la religión católica y laboró como monaguillo, pero también acompañó a su madre a viajes a Haití para aprender sobre el vudú haitiano (Fotoarte: Steve Allen)Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo…
During the second half of the twentieth century, health care delivery systems paid only lip service to Latino populations and their special needs. Latino populations have culturally based belief systems, which pose special challenges to the health care delivery system.…
By Mitchell A. Kaplan PhD, Studies in Rio Grande Valley History, Vol. 17, 2020 Introduction Why Immigration Matters in the United States Since the birth of our nation, more than two centuries ago, the United States has been a country…
Introducción Por siglos la humanidad ha participado en la ingestión de plantas con propiedades que alteran la mente como una vía para comunicarse con el mundo de lo sobrenatural. La ingestión de las plantas sacramentales llamadas los enteógenos era una…
Introduction For centuries humanity has engaged in the ingestion of plants with mind-altering properties as a pathway to communicate with the world of the supernatural. The ingestion of sacramental plants called entheogens was a common practice in the ancient Mayan…
By John Burnett and Marisa Penaloza Over the past 41 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been buying up land on the lower Texas-Mexico border to protect one of the most biologically diverse regions in North America from…
Antonio N. Zavaleta, Ph.D. and Mitchell A. Kaplan Ph.D. For five hundred years, Indigenous-American and Afro-Caribbean religious beliefs have mixed with highly superstitious sixteenth-century Spanish Roman Catholic beliefs and practices. The emergent ‘combined’ religions are most notably Mexican Brujería, Santeria…