• Maya medicine : traditional healing in Yucatan
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: traditional healing in Yucatan
    [NT 47261] Author: KunowMarianna Appel, 1958-
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Albuquerque, N.M.
    [NT 47263] Published: University of New Mexico Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2003
    [NT 50960] Edition: 1st ed.
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (vii, 152 p.)ill. :
    [NT 47266] Subject: Healers - Mexico -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Mayas - Ethnobotany - Mexico -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Mayas - Medicine - Mexico -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826328663/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    [NT 51398] Summary: "This book traces the entire process of curing. The author collectedplants with traditional healers and observed their techniques including prayer and massage as well as plant medicine, westernmedicine, 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
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780826328663electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0826328660electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780826328656pbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0826328652pbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: 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
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