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A review by sssnoo
Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer by Rosita Arvigo
4.0
This book on Belize ethnobotany concludes my 2021 Around the World in 80 Books TBR Takedown challenge - my 4th year completing it.
Rosita Arvigo’s memoir details her years apprenticing with a traditional Maya healer. She has since gone on to partner with Belizeans to secure and promote traditional herbal remedies. I found the book fascinating, even though I struggled at times with letting go my dependance on alopathy. But my mission while reading my way around the world is to open myself to new cultures, new ways of perceiving the world, and old ways that are mostly lost if not for the literature that captures them.
For this I am thankful to Dona Rosita for her decades of work.
Rosita Arvigo’s memoir details her years apprenticing with a traditional Maya healer. She has since gone on to partner with Belizeans to secure and promote traditional herbal remedies. I found the book fascinating, even though I struggled at times with letting go my dependance on alopathy. But my mission while reading my way around the world is to open myself to new cultures, new ways of perceiving the world, and old ways that are mostly lost if not for the literature that captures them.
For this I am thankful to Dona Rosita for her decades of work.