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ritual validation in an empirical practice
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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