Film Screening:

[LOCATION: Nelson Mandela Auditorium. FedEx Global Education Center. UNC-Chapel Hill.]

Sacbé 

(Mauricio Andrada & Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, 2017, 30 min, Mexico, in Spanish and Yucatec Maya w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital) 

-- Introduced by director Maruricio Andrada!; panel to follow

In the Maya communities of Quintana Roo, southern Yucatán peninsula, traditional healers are called X-men, the holders of knowledge. They and their families are usually together offering treatments without charge, the services not only are related to medical-herbal and physical treatment, but also spiritual in nature. As part of public policies many of these healers were re-located to urban “indigenous” centers as part of developmental policies in the 1990s. Unfortunately, after decades of mismanagement and corruption services ended.  

The documentary follows a couple of these healers, Don Pedro and Doña Casilda in their return to the village from where they were taken. To reterritorialized means to start over, to find a place to be in the world as before. Now, a new clinic has been build on the directions of the Maya, a community gets together with their healers to reconnect, what is needed now is to start the health gardens and the network of the human and no-human to bring well-being to the community.

Voices That Heal

(Heather Greer and Delia Ackerman, 2011, 45 min, Peru, in Spanish and Shipibo w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital) 

Voices That Heal tells the story of Herlinda Augustin, a renowned Shipibo shaman, healer and medicine woman, and of her struggle to keep her traditions alive while facing the challenges of the modern world. The Shipibo-Conibo people have lived in the Peruvian Amazon for over 4,000 years, passing on their knowledge of plants and sacred songs from one generation to the next. Voices That Heal tells the story of Herlinda Augustin, a renowned Shipibo shaman, healer and medicine woman, and of her struggle to keep her traditions alive while facing the challenges of the modern world. The film offers an intimate look into the world of shamanism and asks the questions: What are people without their traditions? What are traditions without their people?

Panel Speakers:

- David Boyd, Duke.Global Health Institute. Chair

- Irma Velasquez Nimatuj, Duke. Mellon Visiting Professor;

- Susan Gaylord, UNC School of Medicine (TBC);

- Mauricio Andrada, Filmmaker;

- Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Duke CLACS 

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Health Humanities Lab at FHI, Duke Global Health Institute, Franklin Humanities Institute, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University Libraries, Global Brazil Lab, Duke Human Rights Center, Spanish Language Program, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI, and the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-Chapel Hill.