Maya medicine : traditional healing in Yucatan / Marianna Appel Kunow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunow, Marianna Appel, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Medicine--Mexico--Yucatan (State).

Mayas.

Mayas--Ethnobotany--Mexico--Yucatan (State).

Healers--Mexico--Piste.

Healers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Maya medicine : traditional healing in Yucatan

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781283635158

1283635151

9780826328663

0826328660

OCLC:

817818686