An Imperative to Cure - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of New Mexico PressISBN-13:9780826364449ISBN-10:826364446UPC:9780826364449Book Category:Social Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Anthropology, PsychotherapyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC9P00NEXJ
James B. Waldram's groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of "medicine" instead of "healing." Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, Waldram argues that Q'eqchi' medical practitioners...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of New Mexico PressISBN-13:9780826364449ISBN-10:826364446UPC:9780826364449Book Category:Social Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Anthropology, PsychotherapyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC9P00NEXJ
James B. Waldram is a professor of medical and applied anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Hound Pound Narrative: Sexual Offender Habilitation and the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention and Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples.
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