Robert Vetter, M.A. is a cultural anthropologist whose life work concerns the intersection of spirituality and healing in diverse indigenous cultures. His original fieldwork focused on Native North American medicine, especially that of the Southern Plains.
Along with his adopted uncle, medicine man Richard Tartsah Sr., he authored the book Big Bow: The Spiritual Life and Teachings of a Kiowa Family.
He has studied the traditional Mesoamerican healing system called Curanderismo with teachers both in the United States and in Mexico and maintains a healing practice as well as a community temazcal (traditional Mesoamerican sweat lodge or “house of vapor”) in New York.
Robert is a featured curandero in the book Curandero: Traditional Healers of Mexico and the Southwest by Eliseo Torres and Imanol Miranda. He is an instructor at the University of New Mexico’s annual conference on Curanderismo, as well as Coursera’s online course entitled “Curanderismo: Traditional Medicine of Mexico and the Southwest.” He hosts a podcast entitled “Healing and Spirituality in World Cultures,” on iTunes and all major podcast platforms.
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