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Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala by Servando Z. Hinojosa is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala about?
Scholarship on Maya healing traditions has focused primarily on the roles of midwives, shamans, herbalists, and diviners. Bonesetters, on the other hand, have been largely excluded from conversations about traditional health practitioners and community health resources. Maya Bonesetters is the first book-length study of bonesetting in Guatemala and situates the manual healing tradition within the current cultural context—one in which a changing medical landscape potentially threatens bonesetters
Who reads Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Servando Z. Hinojosa
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781477320310
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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