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Maya Medicine : Traditional Healing in Yucatán /
"This book traces the entire process of curing. The author collected plants with traditional healers and observed their techniques including prayer and massage as well as plant medicine, western medicine, and ritual practices. Plant medicine, she found, was the common denominator, and her book...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque, N.M. :
University of New Mexico Press,
2003
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| Édition: | 1st ed. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.