Description
Book SynopsisEssays on traditional Mesoamerican healers and medical practices, from precolonial times to the present.
Trade ReviewSince the literature on indigenous medicine in Mexico and Guatemala is rich but dispersed, this volume's value lies precisely in the comprehensive, authoritative, and updated coverage by the 14 contributing authors and the excellent bibliography. * Choice *
The book.... is an excellent textbook for broadening the scope of, for example, classes in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy. At the same time, it is of course a very useful resource for anyone interested in medical anthropology. * Journal of Ethnopharmacology *
Table of Contents
- Foreword (Bernard Ortiz de Montellano)
- Introduction (Brad R. Huber)
- Curers and Their Cures in Colonial New Spain and Guatemala: The Spanish Component (Luz María Hernández Sáenz, 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 Treviño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma 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 Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá, Guatemala) and Eugenia Sáenz 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
