Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its DiasporaThe Spanish expression la cultura cura (culture heals) is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film,