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Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer

Rosita Arvigo,

Nadine Epstein (Contributor)

Start date: July 1, 2024

Finish date: July 31, 2024

Why we're reading this: For this month we are traveling to Belize and there was not a lot of options so although Arvigo is Americ…more
[close] For this month we are traveling to Belize and there was not a lot of options so although Arvigo is American, her subject Sastun is not.

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Sep 08, 2024 Elise rated it really liked it

I read this book for my Read the World series for Belize. Technically I cheated because Arvigo is American although she does live in Belize. I was interested in this book because it is about a Mayan or Mayan descendant medicine man. He is quite the character and Rosita Arvigo becomes his student.

Each chapter starts with a description of a plant that is also featured in the story of the chapter which was nice. Rosita is a doctor of naprapathy and a traditional healer. Her family moved to Belize t ...more

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