| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 152 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-145) and indexes |
| Notes |
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 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mayas -- Medicine -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
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Mayas -- Ethnobotany -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
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Healers -- Mexico -- Pisté
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Indians of North America.
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Materia medica, Vegetable.
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Medicine, Botanic.
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Botany, Medical.
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Medicinal plants.
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Medicine, Traditional
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Health Services, Indigenous
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Indians, North American
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Phytotherapy
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Plants, Medicinal
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
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Medicine, Botanic
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Medicinal plants
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Materia medica, Vegetable
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Indians of North America
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Botany, Medical
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Healers
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Mayas -- Ethnobotany
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Mayas -- Medicine
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| SUBJECT |
Mexico https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008800 |
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Mexico -- Pisté
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Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826328663 |
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0826328660 |
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0826328652 |
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9780826328656 |
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