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Maya medicine [electronic resource] : traditional healing in Yucatan / Marianna Appel Kunow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, c2003 2012) 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (vii, 152 p.) :) ill., digital fileISBN:
  • 9780826328663
  • 0826328660
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 615.8/8/097265 21
LOC classification:
  • F1435.3.M4 K86 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Review: "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"--Book jacket.
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

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"--Book jacket.

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