Maya medicine : traditional healing in Yucatan /
Kunow, Marianna Appel, 1958-
Maya medicine : traditional healing in Yucatan / Marianna Appel Kunow. - 1st ed. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2003. - 1 online resource (vii, 152 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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"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."--Jacket
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2010.
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9780826328663 (electronic bk.) 0826328660 (electronic bk.) 0826328652 9780826328656 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
101181293 DNLM
Mayas--Medicine--Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Mayas--Ethnobotany--Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Healers--Mexico--Pisté.
Indians of North America.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Medicine, Botanic.
Botany, Medical.
Medicinal plants.
Medicine, Traditional
Health Services, Indigenous
Indians, North American
Phytotherapy
Plants, Medicinal
Mayas--Médecine--Mexique--Yucatán (État)
Mayas--Ethnobotanique--Mexique--Yucatán (État)
Guérisseurs--Mexique--Pisté.
Indiens d'Amérique--Amérique du Nord.
Phytothérapie.
Plantes médicinales.
PSYCHOLOGY--Psychotherapy--General.
Healers.
Mayas--Ethnobotany.
Mayas--Medicine.
Mexico
Mexico--Pisté.
Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
F1435.3.M4 / K86 2003
615.8/8/097265
2003 H-284 WB 50 DM4 / K96m 2003
Maya medicine : traditional healing in Yucatan / Marianna Appel Kunow. - 1st ed. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2003. - 1 online resource (vii, 152 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Use copy
"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."--Jacket
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780826328663 (electronic bk.) 0826328660 (electronic bk.) 0826328652 9780826328656 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
101181293 DNLM
Mayas--Medicine--Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Mayas--Ethnobotany--Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Healers--Mexico--Pisté.
Indians of North America.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Medicine, Botanic.
Botany, Medical.
Medicinal plants.
Medicine, Traditional
Health Services, Indigenous
Indians, North American
Phytotherapy
Plants, Medicinal
Mayas--Médecine--Mexique--Yucatán (État)
Mayas--Ethnobotanique--Mexique--Yucatán (État)
Guérisseurs--Mexique--Pisté.
Indiens d'Amérique--Amérique du Nord.
Phytothérapie.
Plantes médicinales.
PSYCHOLOGY--Psychotherapy--General.
Healers.
Mayas--Ethnobotany.
Mayas--Medicine.
Mexico
Mexico--Pisté.
Mexico--Yucatán (State)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
F1435.3.M4 / K86 2003
615.8/8/097265
2003 H-284 WB 50 DM4 / K96m 2003