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The hot and the cold : ills of humans and maize in native Mexico /
"In The Hot and the Cold, Jacques Chevalier and Andres Sanchez Bain examine aspects of indigenous world views and myths, and challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth centur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Anthropological horizons.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Humoralism
- Balance and movement
- Solar life, birth, and diarrhea
- Lovesickness and fear of the dead
- Frights and Chanegues
- Milpa medicine and the lunisolar calendar
- Corn, water, and iguana
- Ants, turtles, and thunder
- Diffusion and syncretism.