Folk Practices In North Mexico
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Folk Practices In North Mexico
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Author : Isabel Kelly
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-11-21
Folk Practices In North Mexico written by Isabel Kelly and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-21 with Social Science categories.
The Mexican folkways described in this monograph, of scientific interest to anthropologists, will fascinate laypeople as well. Isabel Kelly collected these notes in the 1950s, as a diversion when official field work was not feasible, in the vicinity of Torreón and particularly in the nearby village of El Cuije, in northern Mexico. She recounts folk customs and habits, focusing on beliefs and practices related to health and healing and on notions concerning magic. These form, Kelly believes, a core of folk culture which has survived tenaciously in the rural areas and on the outskirts of the cities, among mestizo families of scant education and limited economic resources. These people are well acquainted with simple, matter-of-fact illnesses which result from natural causes and which respond to treatment by herbal and other home remedies or by modern medicines. But they also recognize the evil eye and the emotional upset known as “fright.” They are thoroughly familiar with the ever-present danger of ailments which are not “natural” and God-sent, but which are deliberately inflicted by an enemy, through the artifice of a sorcerer or a spiritualist. Such “instigated” illnesses may take any form, from a cold in the head to a false pregnancy. If a person suspects that poor health results from such malevolence, he or she spurns Western medicine and looks instead to the witch or to the spiritualist as the only hope of a cure. El Cuije pays an annual quota from community funds to make available modern health services provided by the government. But community funds are similarly drawn upon to provide “medical” attention for those who repair to the sorcerers. Once a week the village truck takes all presumed witchcraft victims to a nearby town, where they receive clinical treatment from professional sorcerers. Kelly sees little that is genuinely indigenous in the beliefs and practices described; many of them demonstrably result from infiltration from the Old World in the years following the Spanish Conquest. She considers spiritualistic curing—important in northern Mexico and many other parts of Latin America—in some detail, but the specific outlines of its history in northern Mexico still awaited clarification at the time of her research.
Tepoztlan A Mexican Village
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Author : Robert Redfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Tepoztlan A Mexican Village written by Robert Redfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Ethnology categories.
Curanderismo
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Author : Robert T. Trotter
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Curanderismo written by Robert T. Trotter and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Medical categories.
The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted in native Mexican healing techniques. This is the first book to describe the practice from an insider's point of view, based on the authors' three-year apprenticeships with curanderos (healers). Robert T. Trotter and Juan Antonio Chavira present an intimate view of not only how curanderismo is practiced but also how it is learned and passed on as a healing tradition. By providing a better understanding of why curanderos continue to be in demand despite the lifesaving capabilities of modern medicine, this text will serve as an indispensable resource to health professionals who work within Mexican American communities, to students of transcultural medicine, and to urban ethnologists and medical anthropologists.
Chicano Experience
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Author : Stanley A. West
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-08
Chicano Experience written by Stanley A. West and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-08 with Social Science categories.
The past decade has seen a renewed interest in ethnicity by people in search of their own identities, as well as by writers and scholars from every discipline. But despite the contagion of ethnic aEURO fever,aEURO the Chicano culture is neither widely known nor appreciated in the United States. The authors of this book attempt to close the gap in current knowledge. Their purpose is fourfold: (1) to add to the knowledge of Chicano communities; (2) to add to the knowledge and understanding of how Mexican Americans have adapted in various urban areas; (3) to present descriptions and analyses of communities in the Midwest, where the presence of Mexican Americans has been more typically neglected; and (4) to bring an anthropological approach to the understanding of this second-largest minority group in the United States.
Healing Logics
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Author : Erika Brady
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2001-04-01
Healing Logics written by Erika Brady and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-01 with Social Science categories.
Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the real-life complexities of health belief systems as they observably exist and are applied by contemporary Americans. Recent research strongly suggests that individuals construct their health belief systmes from diverse sources of authority, including community and ethnic tradition, education, spiritual beliefs, personal experience, the influence of popular media, and perception of the goals and means of formal medicine. Healing Logics explores the diversity of these belief systems and how they interact—in competing, conflicting, and sometimes remarkably congruent ways. This book contains essays by leading scholars in the field and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine.
The Manner Born
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Author : Lauren Dundes
language : en
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Release Date : 2004-09-01
The Manner Born written by Lauren Dundes and has been published by AltaMira Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-01 with Health & Fitness categories.
This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, such as attitudes and techniques in childbirth, the influence of societal factors that differentiate Western from non-Western maternal birthing positions, the art of midwifery, customs and beliefs regarding breastfeeding, weaning, swaddling. This book will be valuable for courses in medical sociology and anthropology, public health or behavioral sciences, psychology and psychiatry, and for pre-med students.
Changing Fields Of Anthropology
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Author : Michael Kearney
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2004
Changing Fields Of Anthropology written by Michael Kearney and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global social, intellectual, and political fields within which American anthropology is situated have profoundly changed. The second meaning refers to how, in response to these changing fields, the author, like many other anthropologists, changed the locations of his fieldwork along with his research problems and theoretical perspectives. The book engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront (or at its peril, avoid): becoming more self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodological holism, and defense of universal human rights.
Jamaican Folk Medicine
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Author : Arvilla Payne-Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Jamaican Folk Medicine written by Arvilla Payne-Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This pioneering work is multi-disciplinary in approach as it examines the rich folk medicine of Jamaica. Payne-Jackson and Alleyne analyse the historical and linguistic aspects of folk medicine, based on their research, which included extensive fieldwork and interviews. They explore the sociological and ethnological dimensions of common healing and health-preserving practices which rely on Jamaica's rich biodiversity in medicinal and nutritional flora. As is the case with other aspects of Jamaican traditional culture, Jamaican folk medicine is largely misunderstood and subject to negative pejorative attitudes. This comprehensively study challenges some of the myths and misinformation. Particular attention is paid to cultural transference from Africa and the use of herbs in African-Jamaican religions. The work has an appendix and a glossary as well as a detailed bibliography.
Alternative Health Maintenance And Healing Systems For Families
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Author : Doris Y. Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1987
Alternative Health Maintenance And Healing Systems For Families written by Doris Y. Wilkinson and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Alternative medicine categories.
This important book offers timely discussions of movements in modern medicine that have had great impact upon the family--the hospice movement and the integration of the family into birthing, care of the dying, the chronically ill, and the mentally ill. This book emphasizes that alternative health practices, often viewed as archaic by Western-trained health care personnel, do no have to be in conflict with modern medical practices, but can instead enrich and expand them. The authors discuss fascinating health practices which are changing the course of medicine.
National Library Of Medicine Current Catalog
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Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
National Library Of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Medicine categories.