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Waldram, James B.

 
9780826361738: An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize
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ISBN 10: 0826361730 ISBN 13: 9780826361738
Editorial: University of New Mexico Press, 2020

Sinopsis

James B. Waldram's groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of "medicine" instead of "healing". Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, Waldram argues that Q'eqchi' medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles. Not content to leave the elements of Q'eqchi' cosmovision to the realm of the imaginary and beyond human reach, Q'eqchi practitioners conceptualize the world as essentially material and meta/material, consisting of complex but knowable forces that impact health and well-being in real and meaningful ways―forces with which Q'eqchi practitioners must engage to cure their patients.

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Acerca del autor

James B. Waldram is a professor of medical and applied anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Hound Pound Narrative: Sexual Offender Habilitation and the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention and Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples.

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Editorial
University of New Mexico Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0826361730
ISBN 13 
9780826361738
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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