Social Structure and Traditional Healing: The Case of the Fidencista Movement in North Mexico, by Greg Uberuaga

This was a lot of fun. I got to read this 1984 thesis about El Niño Fidencio, a curandero (traditional healer) in Mexico, and the movement that grew up around him. I say, if you meet someone and discover that he's written a thesis or a dissertation, you should read it. (Next up for me: a doctoral dissertation entitled Position and orientation correction for pipe profiling robots.)