Mesoamerican Healers /

Mesoamerican Healers / / ed. by Alan R. Sandstrom, Brad R. Huber.

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Healing practices in Mesoamerica span a wide range, from traditional folk medicine with roots reaching back into the prehispanic era to westernized biomedicine. These sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing practices have attracted attention from researchers and the public alike, as interest in a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Cosminsky, Sheila,
Dow, James W.,
Finkler, Kaja,
Foster, George M.,
Harrison, Margaret E.,
Huber, Brad R.,
Hurtado, Elena,
Lipp, Frank J.,
McMahon, Clancy,
Montellano, Bernard Ortiz de,
Paul, Benjamin D.,
Sandstrom, Alan R.,
Sáenz, Luz María Hernández,
Tejada, Eugenia Sáenz de,
Treviño, Carlos Viesca,
HerausgeberIn:
Huber, Brad R.,
Sandstrom, Alan R.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2001
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (419 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2 Curers and Their Cures in Colonial New Spain and Guatemala: The Spanish Component
  • CHAPTER 3 Curanderismo in Mexico and Guatemala Its Historical Evolution from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
  • CHAPTER 4 Central and North Mexican Shamans
  • CHAPTER 5 A Comparative Analysis of Southern Mexican and Guatemalan Shamans
  • CHAPTER 6 Mistress of Lo Espiritual
  • CHAPTER 7 Recruitment, Training, and Practice of Indigenous Midwives From the Mexico–United States Border to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
  • CHAPTER 8 Maya Midwives of Southern Mexico and Guatemala
  • CHAPTER 9 Relations between Government HealthWorkers and Traditional Midwives in Guatemala
  • CHAPTER 10 Mesoamerican Bonesetters
  • CHAPTER 11 Mexican Physicians, Nurses, and SocialWorkers
  • CHAPTER 12 Mesoamerican Healers and Medical Anthropology: Summary and Concluding Remarks
  • Glossary
  • References Cited
  • Contributors to the Volume
  • Index

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