Maya medicine: traditional healing in Yucatan
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1. Verfasser: Kunow, Marianna Appel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press ©2003
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Beschreibung:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-145) and indexes
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
"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 includes information of the plants she worked with and studied."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 152 pages)
ISBN:0826328660
9780826328656
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