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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

6/1/1971 - 1/31/1973

Funding Totals

$8,750.00 (approved)
$8,750.00 (awarded)

Curanderismo and its Relationship to Contemporary Mexican-American Values

FAIN: FB-10889-72

Moorpark College (Moorpark, CA 93021-1605)
Norman T. Alger (Project Director: June 1971 to present)

The study of the roots of contemporary Mexican-American attitudes towards medical practitioners, disease, and treatment. The folk medicine system, Curanderismo.