Maya Bonesetters : : Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala / / Servando Z. Hinojosa.
Scholarship on Maya healing traditions has focused primarily on the roles of midwives, shamans, herbalists, and diviners. Bonesetters, on the other hand, have been largely excluded from conversations about traditional health practitioners and community health resources. Maya Bonesetters is the first...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Bonesetting over Time
- CHAPTER 2 Empirical Forms of Maya Bonesetting
- CHAPTER 3 Sacred Forms of Maya Bonesetting
- CHAPTER 4 Challenges and Changes in the Injury Landscape
- Conclusion. Defined Images, Hazy Roles: Scanning for Change
- APPENDIX Traditional Medicine and Bonesetting: Integration and Lessons
- Notes
- References
- Index