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Title Mesoamerican healers / edited by Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom
Edition First edition
Published Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2001

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Description xiii, 403 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Foreword -- Bernard Ortiz de Montellano -- Introduction -- Brad R. Huber -- Curers and Their Cures in Colonial New Spain and Guatemala: The Spanish Component -- Luz Mara̕ Hernandez Saenz (University of Western Ontario) and George M. Foster (University of California-Berkeley) -- Curanderismo in Mexico and Guatemala: Its Historical Evolution from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century -- Carlos Viesca Treviǫ (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) -- Central and North Mexican Shamans -- James W. Dow (Oakland University) -- A Comparative Analysis of Southern Mexican and Guatemalan Shamans -- Frank J. Lipp (New York State Office of Children and Family Services) -- Mistress of Lo Espiritual -- Kaja Finkler (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) -- Recruitment, Training, and Practice of Indigenous Midwives: From the Mexico-United States Border to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec -- Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom -- Maya Midwives of Southern Mexico and Guatemala -- Sheila Cosminsky (Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey) -- Relations between Government Health Workers and Traditional Midwives in Guatemala -- Elena Hurtado (Instituto de Nutricion de Centro America y Panama, Guatemala) and Eugenia Saenz de Tejada (Pan American Health Organization) -- Mesoamerican Bonesetters -- Benjamin D. Paul (Stanford University) and Clancy McMahon (independent scholar, Arkansas) -- Mexican Physicians, Nurses, and Social Workers -- Margaret E. Harrison (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, U.K.) -- Mesoamerican Healers and Medical Anthropology: Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Alan R. Sandstrom -- Glossary -- References Cited -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-383) and index
Subject Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of Mexico -- Medicine.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of Central America -- Medicine -- Guatemala.
Shamans -- Latin America.
Healers -- Latin America.
Midwives -- Latin America.
Author Sandstrom, Alan R.
Huber, Brad R. (Brad Richard), 1954-
LC no. 2001033103
ISBN 0292734549 cloth alkaline paper
0292734565 paperback alkaline paper