Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes: Cultural Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Dominican Republic and Cuba

ISBN-13: 9789088907647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 390 str.

Jana Pesoutova

Opis

This study focuses on current healing practices from a cultural memory perspective.

O autorze

Jana Pesoutová was born in Ceský Brod, Czech Republic in 1987. After obtaining her bachelor's degree in applied linguistics at Palacký University in Olomouc in 2010, she moved to the Netherlands where she completed her Master in the Management of Cultural Diversity. Drawing on theories from social psychology, her master's thesis focused on the impact of the social exclusion and its relationship with extremism among the youth. From 2013 she carried out her doctoral research as a part of the 1492 Nexus project at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.