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Atravesando Fronteras : Voces Desde Haití Hacia Sudamérica: Libertad, Igualdad y Fraternidad.
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ISBN: 9877224747 607867109X Year: 2019 Publisher: México : Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales,


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Mayan suffering, Mayan rights : faith and citizenship among Catholic Tzotziles in Highland Chiapas, Mexico.
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ISBN: 916285531X Year: 2003 Publisher: Göteborg Göteborg University


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Changement et continuité chez les Mayas du Mexique : contribution à l'étude de la situation coloniale en Amérique latine
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ISBN: 9782296561861 2296561861 2371540943 2296468098 Year: 1971 Publisher: Éditions de l’IHEAL

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Les Indiens paysans d'Amérique latine sont-ils menacés d'« ethnocide » ? Sont-ils inéluctablement condamnés à perdre leur exotique altérité qui a enchanté des générations de folkloristes et d'ethnologues ? Rien ne permet de souscrire à cette opinion au demeurant fort optimiste. Car le système colonial établi au XVIe siècle, suppose l'exclusion de l'Indien de la culture occidentale. Il implique le maintien du colonisé dans un état d'infériorité culturelle qui le livre au contrôle absolu du colonisateur. Et partout où il demeure encore en vigueur de nos jours, ce système continue de marginaliser la population indienne pour la mieux soumettre à une forme archaïque d'exploitation. Le problème indien n'est donc pas le problème d'une ethnie attardée dans ses coutumes millénaires : c'est celui d'une catégorie sociale opprimée. Ce problème, il faut avoir l'audace de le poser au niveau où il doit l'être, c'est-à-dire, au niveau politique. Telle est la conclusion suggérée par l'étude des rapports que depuis quatre cent cinquante ans les Tzotzil-Tzeltal du Mexique méridional entretiennent avec les descendants de leurs conquérants espagnols, par l'analyse des changements qu'ils ont provoqués au sein de l'organisation sociale traditionnelle de ce grand groupe maya, et par l'examen des tentatives ambigües de réaction et de réorganisation qu'ils ont suscitées jusqu'à présent.

Medical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico : The Gastrointestinal Diseases
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ISBN: 0691037418 9781400872886 140087288X 9780691602714 9780691037417 0691602719 0691632170 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that confirms the scientific foundations of traditional Maya medicine. Data drawn from analysis of the medical practices of two Mayan-speaking peoples, the Tzeltal and Tzotzil, reveal that they have developed a large number of herbal remedies based on a highly sophisticated understanding of the physiology and symptomatology of common diseases and on an in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants. Here Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin, along with their many collaborators, provide detailed information on Maya disease classification, symptomatology, and treatment of the most significant health conditions affecting the Highland Maya, the gastrointestinal diseases.The authors base their work on broad-ranging comparative ethno-medical and ethnobotanical data collected over seven years of original field research. In describing the Mayas' understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, Berlin and Berlin show that the plants used as remedies are condition specific.› Moreover, laboratory studies demonstrate that the most commonly agreed upon herbal remedies are potentially effective against the pathogenic agents underlying specific diseases and that they strongly affect the physiological processes associated with intestinal peristalsis. These findings suggest that the traditional Maya medical system is the result of long-term explicit empirical experimentation with the effects of herbal remedies on bodily function.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Ethnobiology --- Gastrointestinal system --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Traditional medicine --- Tzeltal Indians --- Tzotzil Indians. --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Batsi Kop Indians (Tzotzil) --- Chamula Indians --- Cinanteco Indians --- Quelem Indians --- Quelene Indians --- Querene Indians --- Tsotsil Indians --- Tzinanteco Indians --- Zotzil Indians --- Zozil Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Mayas --- Celdal Indians --- Tseltal Indians --- Tzel-tal Indians --- Tzeldal Indians --- Tzendal Indians --- Tzental Indians --- Zendal Indians --- Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Botanical drugs --- Drugs from plants --- Medicinal plants --- Phytotherapy --- Plant drugs --- Vegetable drugs --- Materia medica --- Botanical drug industry --- Botany, Medical --- Gastro-intestinal system --- Gastrointestinal tract --- GI tract --- Tract, Gastrointestinal --- Tract, GI --- Alimentary canal --- Digestive organs --- Folk biology --- Folkbiology --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional biology --- Biology, Economic --- Ethnoscience --- Diseases&delete& --- Treatment --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Therapeutic use --- Tzotzil Indians --- Tzeltal Indians. --- Diseases --- Treatment.

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