Maya Medicine : Traditional Healing in Yucatán.

This account of the practice of traditional Maya medicine examines the work of curers in Pisté, Mexico, a small town in the Yucatán Peninsula near the ruins of Chichén Itzá. The traditions of plant use and ethnomedicine applied by these healers have been transmitted from one generation to the ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of New Mexico Press 2012.
Temas:
Mayas > Medicine > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Mayas > Ethnobotany > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Healers > Mexico > Pist.̌.
Mayas > Ethnobotanique > Mexique > Yucatán (État)
Healers
Mayas > Ethnobotany
Mayas > Medicine
Mexico > Yucatán (State)
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  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction and Setting; 2: The Yucatecan Sources; 3: Portraits of the Curers; 4: Acquiring Curing Skills; 5: Exploring the Spectrum of Curing Specialties: Common Practices; 6: Common Treatments and Traditional Concepts of Disease and Its Cause; 7: Relation to Colonial Sources; 8: Conclusion; ILLUSTRATIONS; Appendix A: Plant Catalog; Appendix B: Plants with Uses Similar to Roys (1931); Glossary; References Cited; Index of Plants by Families; Index; Back Cover.

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