An Imperative to Cure

Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8263-6444-9
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List 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
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.