TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kunow,Marianna Appel
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Maya medicine: traditional healing in Yucatan 
SN  - 9780826328663
AV  - F1435.3.M4 K86 2003
U1  - 615.8/8/097265 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Albuquerque, N.M.
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Healers
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Piste
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Ethnobotany
KW  - Yucatán (State)
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826328663/
ER  -