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050 4 _aF1435.3.M4
_bK86 2003
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100 1 _aKunow, Marianna Appel,
_d1958-
245 1 0 _aMaya medicine
_h[electronic resource] :
_btraditional healing in Yucatan /
_cMarianna Appel Kunow.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aAlbuquerque, N.M. :
_bUniversity of New Mexico Press,
_cc2003
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject Muse
_g2012)
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (1 electronic text (vii, 152 p.) :)
_bill., digital file.
500 _aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [143]-145) and indexes.
505 0 _a1. 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.
520 1 _a"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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aHealers
_zMexico
_zPiste.
650 0 _aMayas
_xEthnobotany
_zMexico
_zYucatán (State)
650 0 _aMayas
_xMedicine
_zMexico
_zYucatán (State)
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780826328656
_z0826328652
_z9780826328649
_z0826328644
_w(DLC) 2002011042
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826328663/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c36302
_d36302