Examines indigenous worldview and myth to challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning of health and illness in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century.
Authors
W. Andréas Bain, W. Andrés (Sánchez) Bain, Jacques M. Chevalier
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 306.4/61/08997452
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- ISBN
- 0802036910 9781442681460
- LCCN
- F1221.N3
- LCCN Item number
- C43 2003eb
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxii, 301 p., [8] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600350 (OCoLC)431554152 (CaOOCEL)418365
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- List of Figures 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 12
- 1 Humoralism 26
- Classical and New World Humoralism 26
- Humoralism without Humours 34
- 2 Balance and Movement 39
- Skewed Theories of Equilibrium 39
- Balance, Cycle, and Growth 45
- Life and Movement under the Fifth Sun 53
- 3 Solar Life, Birth, and Diarrhea 64
- The Human Cycle: A Heliotropic Life Force 64
- Work and Rest, Hunger and Food, Sex and Reproduction 70
- Menstruation, Childbirth, and Burying the Placenta 78
- Birth and Bowel Movement 93
- Mixtures of Balance and Pace 109
- 4 Lovesickness and Fear of the Dead 113
- Evil Eye and Lovesickness 113
- Heat of the Dead 130
- Snakebites 135
- A Moving Equilibrium 144
- 5 Frights and Chaneques 147
- Soul Theft and Cold Fright 147
- Soul-Snatching Chaneques 157
- Dieting and Soul Exchange 164
- Ensalmo and Tallada 179
- 6 Milpa Medicine and the Lunisolar Calendar 186
- Sowing and Dieting 186
- Milpa, Women, and the Moon 194
- The Carnaval and Plant Gathering 198
- 7 Corn, Water, and Iguana 203
- Stories of Corn and the Interpretive Method 204
- Life Begins in Water: Two Eggs in a Milpa 208
- Signs of Troubled Waters: Sex and Twins 216
- Life Grows out of Water: The Milpa Cycle 220
- Lessons of Immaturity: The Corn Boy Mocked 230
- Evils of Vanity: The Iguana Caught 235
- Hopes of Sacrifice: Letting the Animal Go 243
- 8 Ants, Turtles, and Thunder 250
- The Pilgrimage of Life: Cutting Leaves and Ants 250
- From Ants to Thunder 255
- The Prince of Tides 261
- The Colours of Sacrifice: Revisiting the Legend of the Suns 263
- 9 Diffusion and Syncretism 272
- Diffusion Mechanisms 275
- Classificatory Logic 282
- Towards a Theory of Syncretism 285
- Notes 292
- References 308
- Index 314
- A 314
- B 315
- C 316
- D 317
- E 318
- F 319
- G 320
- H 321
- I 322
- J 323
- K 323
- L 323
- M 323
- N 325
- O 325
- P 325
- Q 326
- R 326
- S 327
- T 329
- U 330
- V 330
- W 331
- Y 332
