The Hot and the Cold : Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico /

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"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...

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Main Authors: Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949- (Author), Bain, Andres Sánchez (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Traditional medicine.
Nahuas > Medicine.
Corn.
Medicina indígena americana > Veracruz (Estado)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Nord.
Folklore.
Ethnobotanique.
Maïs > Mexique > Veracruz (État) > Folklore.
Popoluca (Indiens) > Ethnobotanique.
Nahua (Indiens) > Ethnobotanique > Mexique > Veracruz (État)
Ethnomedecine > Mexique > Veracruz (État)
Popoluca (Indiens) > Medecine.
Nahua (Indiens) > Medecine > Mexique > Veracruz (État)
Zea mays > history
Indians, North American
Folklore
Ethnobotany
Medicine, Traditional
Corn > Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State) > Folklore.
Indians of North America.
Ethnobotany.
Popoluca Indians > Ethnobotany.
Nahuas > Ethnobotany > Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State)
Traditional medicine > Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State)
Popoluca Indians > Medicine.
Nahuas > Medicine > Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State)
Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State)
Mexico
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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