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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: sacred nature of Maya bonesetting
    sub title: ritual validation in an empirical practice
  name:
    name part: McMahon, Clarence Edward.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: ix, 232 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
  abstract: accomplish their work through a ritual process that is based
  abstract: Bonesetting in San Pedro La Laguna is a medical practice that
  abstract: bonesetting symbolizes a potent force for restoring
  abstract: can be recognized for its objective empirical efficacy. Yet
  abstract: importance of ritual traditions in bonesetting, the
  abstract: is paralleled by the separate liminal experience of their
  abstract: its practitioners, wecol bak, are sacred specialists that
  abstract: liminality that the healers experience in their recruitment
  abstract: narratives of wecol bak are provided as evidence for how the
  abstract: patients. For both the wecol bak and their patients, the
  abstract: sacred instrument - the h u e s o - that is used in
  abstract: upon traditional Mayan spiritual beliefs. To account for the
  abstract: wholeness.
  note: by Clarence Edward McMahon.
  note: "Major subject: Anthropology".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: M.A. Texas A&M University 1994.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1994-THESIS-M1673
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1994-THESIS-M1673
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 960529
    record change date: 20220103113955.0
    record identifier: in00001302480