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Overview"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 access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles. Not content to leave the elements of Q'eqchi' cosmovision to the realm of the imaginary and beyond human reach, Q'eqchi' practitioners conceptualize the world as essentially material and meta/material, consisting of complex but knowable forces that impact health and well-being in real and meaningful ways--forces with which Q'eqchi' practitioners must engage to cure their patients." Full Product DetailsAuthor: James B. WaldramPublisher: University of New Mexico Press Imprint: University of New Mexico Press Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780826364449ISBN 10: 0826364446 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 30 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: A Ten-Minute Break Chapter One. Empiricism, Materialism, and Indigenous Medicine Chapter Two. Maya Medicine, Medical Ethnography, and the Research Context Chapter Three. General Principles of Q'eqchi' Medicine Chapter Four. Sickness and Nosology Chapter Five. The Diagnostic Process Chapter Six. The Clinical Context of Treatment Chapter Seven. Principle and Practice in Q'eqchi' Medicine Afterword 2020 Glossary Notes References Cited IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJames 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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