Maya Bonesetters - Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala

The first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bonesetting over Time
Chapter 2. Empirical Forms of Maya Bonesetting
Chapter 3. Sacred Forms of Maya Bonesetting
Chapter 4. Challenges and Changes in the Injury Landscape
Conclusion
 
Appendix. Traditional Medicine and Bonesetting: Integration and Lessons
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Servando Z. Hinojosa is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of In This Body: Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit and coeditor of Healing by Hand: Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective. Servando G. Hinojosa is a retired educator and an active sculptor, muralist, and illustrator.

Summary

The first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.

Product details

• Authors: Servando Z. Hinojosa, Servando Z./ Hinojosa Hinojosa
• Assisted by: Servando G. Hinojosa (Illustration)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781477320297
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-2029-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Alternativmedizin, Amerikanische Geschichte, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, MEDICAL / Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America