The Hot and the Cold : : Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico / / W. Andrés (Sánchez) Bain, Jacques M. Chevalier.
Pre-Hispanic notions of heat and cold continue to shape native Mexican ideas about health and illness in humans and food plants. In The Hot and the Cold, Jacques Chevalier and Andrés Sánchez Bain examine indigenous worldview and myth, and challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning in La...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Anthropological Horizons
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. Humoralism
- CHAPTER TWO. Balance and Movement
- CHAPTER THREE. Solar Life, Birth, and Diarrhea
- CHAPTER FOUR. Lovesickness and Fear of the Dead
- CHAPTER FIVE. Frights and Chaneques
- CHAPTER SIX. Milpa Medicine and the Lunisolar Calendar
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Corn, Water, and Iguana
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Ants, Turtles, and Thunder
- CHAPTER NINE. Diffusion and Syncretism
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Backmatter