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Maya Bonesetters - Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala (Paperback) Loot Price: R705
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Maya Bonesetters - Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala (Paperback): Servando Z. Hinojosa

Maya Bonesetters - Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala (Paperback)

Servando Z. Hinojosa; Illustrated by Servando G. Hinojosa

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Scholarship on Maya healing traditions has focused primarily on the roles of midwives, shamans, herbalists, and diviners. Bonesetters, on the other hand, have been largely excluded from conversations about traditional health practitioners and community health resources. Maya Bonesetters is the first book-length study of bonesetting in Guatemala and situates the manual healing tradition within the current cultural context-one in which a changing medical landscape potentially threatens bonesetters' work yet presents an opportunity to strengthen its relevance. Drawing on extensive field research in highland Guatemala, Servando Z. Hinojosa introduces readers to a seldom documented, though nonetheless widespread, variety of healer. This book examines the work of Kaqchikel and Tz'utujiil Maya bonesetters, analyzes how they diagnose and treat injuries, and contrasts the empirical and sacred approaches of various healers. Hinojosa shows how bonesetters are carefully adapting certain biomedical technologies to meet local expectations for care and concludes that, despite pressures and criticisms from the biomedical community, bonesetting remains culturally meaningful and vital to Maya people, even if its future remains uncertain.

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Imprint: University Of Texas Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Servando Z. Hinojosa
Illustrators: Servando G. Hinojosa
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-2029-7
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 1-4773-2029-6
Barcode: 9781477320297

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