The sacred nature of Maya bonesetting : ritual validation in an empirical practice /
accomplish their work through a ritual process that is based
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1994.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | accomplish their work through a ritual process that is based Bonesetting in San Pedro La Laguna is a medical practice that bonesetting symbolizes a potent force for restoring can be recognized for its objective empirical efficacy. Yet importance of ritual traditions in bonesetting, the is paralleled by the separate liminal experience of their its practitioners, wecol bak, are sacred specialists that liminality that the healers experience in their recruitment narratives of wecol bak are provided as evidence for how the patients. For both the wecol bak and their patients, the sacred instrument - the h u e s o - that is used in upon traditional Mayan spiritual beliefs. To account for the wholeness. |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 232 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |