An imperative to cure : principles and practice of Q'ieqchi' Maya medicine in Belize
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- ISBN: 9780826364449 (softcover)
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: Albuquerque [New Mexico] : University of New Mexico Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: A ten-minute break -- Chapter 1. Empiricism, materialism, and Indigenous medicine -- Chapter 2. Maya medicine, medical ethnography, and the research context -- Chapter 3. General principles of Q'ieqchi' medicine -- Chapter 4. Sickness and nosology -- Chapter 5. The diagnostic process -- Chapter 6. The clinical context of treatment -- Chapter 7. Principle and practice in Q'ieqchi' medicine -- Afterword 2020 -- Glossary of local Q'ieqchi' terms -- Notes -- References cited -- Index. |
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Subject: | Kekchi -- Medicine Kekchi -- Health and hygiene Traditional medicine -- Belize Indigenous peoples -- Central America |
Topic Heading: | Indigenous. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | F 1465.2 .K5 W34 2022 (Text) | 58500001158757 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |