Health Among The Maya
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Health Among The Maya
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Author : Hannah Plumer
language : en
Publisher: BAR International Series
Release Date : 2017
Health Among The Maya written by Hannah Plumer and has been published by BAR International Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Medical categories.
This book examines health indicators in sites in northern Belize and compares the results to the larger context of the health of the ancient lowland Maya. The research was completed through the analysis of the skeletal populations of three sites and by comparing results both within and among those sites.
Health Care In Maya Guatemala
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Author : John Palmer Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2007
Health Care In Maya Guatemala written by John Palmer Hawkins and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medical categories.
This book examines medical systems and institutions in three K'iche' Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system. It shows the necessity of cultural understanding if poor people are to have access to medicine that combines the best of both local tradition and international biomedicine.
Diet Health And Status Among The Pasi N Maya
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Author : Lori E. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 2006
Diet Health And Status Among The Pasi N Maya written by Lori E. Wright and has been published by Vanderbilt University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This volume presents the data, analyses, and interpretation of a wide range of osteological and burial data. The Petexbatun bioarchaeology subproject included complete assessment of burial practice and osteology. The chapters on this research explore population variability in time and space, paleopathology, and trauma from skeletal remains throughout the various sites and the inter-site areas of the Petexbatun, as well as from Seibal and Altar de Sacrificios. Yet Wright's innovative study goes on to apply the most recent physical and chemical techniques, particularly isotopic analysis, to assess diet and health in the populations of the Pasion region. Variability between sites, across levels of status, and over time are assessed and conservatively interpreted in the light of contemporary issues and problems of physical, chemical, and statistical methodology. Finally, the Petexbatun and Pasion region results are compared in order to reassess past and current studies and interpretation of skeletal remains in other regions of the ancient Maya lowlands. In the final chapters of this work, Wright's cutting-edge osteological analyses are used to critique current alternative interpretations of Late Classic to Postclassic culture history and alternative hypotheses on the role of changes in climate, ecology, diet, nutrition, invasion, and other factors in the end of Classic Maya civilization and the transition to the Postclassic period. This volume also provides an independent assessment of the results of other Petexbatun region subprojects and a comparative evaluation of recent studies by other projects of Late and Terminal Classic culture change. For bioarchaeologists, this work sets a new standard in breadth and depth of osteological study. For Pre-Columbian scholars in general, it provides new insights into the environmental and biological issues involved in the debate on the end of the Classic period of Maya civilization. VIMA Series #2
Embodying Ecological Heritage In A Maya Community
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Author : Kristina Baines
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-12-29
Embodying Ecological Heritage In A Maya Community written by Kristina Baines and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-29 with History categories.
Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village in southern Belize, focusing on the connections between traditional ecological practices and the health and wellness of the Maya community living there. It discusses how complex histories, ecologies, and development practices are negotiated by individuals of all ages, and the community at large, detailing how they interact with their changing environments. The study has wide applicability for indigenous communities fighting for rights to manage their lands across the globe, as well as for considering how health is connected to heritage practices in communities worldwide.
Medical Ethnobiology Of The Highland Maya Of Chiapas Mexico
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Author : Elois Ann Berlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Medical Ethnobiology Of The Highland Maya Of Chiapas Mexico written by Elois Ann Berlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Ethnobiology categories.
Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that confirms the scientific foundations of traditional Maya medicine. Data drawn from analysis of the medical practices of two Mayan-speaking peoples, the Tzeltal and Tzotzil, reveal that they have developed a large number of herbal remedies based on a highly sophisticated understanding of the physiology and symptomatology of common diseases and on an in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants. Here Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin, along with their many collaborators, provide detailed information on Maya disease classification, symptomatology, and treatment of the most significant health conditions affecting the Highland Maya, the gastrointestinal diseases. The authors base their work on broad-ranging comparative ethno-medical and ethnobotanical data collected over seven years of original field research. In describing the Mayas' understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, Berlin and Berlin show that the plants used as remedies are condition specific.> Moreover, laboratory studies demonstrate that the most commonly agreed upon herbal remedies are potentially effective against the pathogenic agents underlying specific diseases and that they strongly affect the physiological processes associated with intestinal peristalsis. These findings suggest that the traditional Maya medical system is the result of long-term explicit empirical experimentation with the effects of herbal remedies on bodily function. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Wellness Beyond Words
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Author : T. S. Harvey
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2013
Wellness Beyond Words written by T. S. Harvey and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Anthropological linguistics categories.
"This anthropological account of Maya language use in health care in highland Guatemala explores some of the cultural and linguistic factors that can complicate communication in the practice of medicine. Bringing together the analytical tools of linguistic and medical anthropology, T. S. Harvey offers a rare comparative glimpse into Maya intra-cultural therapeutic and cross-cultural biomedical interactions"--
Wind In The Blood
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Author : Hernan Garcia
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 1999-10-22
Wind In The Blood written by Hernan Garcia and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-22 with Health & Fitness categories.
Wind in the Blood is a detailed look at Mayan medicine on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medcal technique and Mayan medical knowledge. Mexican physicians Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra, and Hiberto Balam discovered that the similarities between Mayan medicine and traditional Chinese medcine were profound and helpful in their medical work.
Privatization And The New Medical Pluralism
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Author : Anita Chary
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-09-17
Privatization And The New Medical Pluralism written by Anita Chary and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Health & Fitness categories.
Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically endured numerous disparities in health and healthcare access. The collection provides an updated understanding of medical pluralism, which concerns not only the tensions and exchanges between ethnomedicine and biomedicine that have historically shaped Maya people’s experiences of health, but also the multiple competing biomedical institutions that have emerged in a highly privatized, market-driven environment of care. The contributors examine the macro-structural and micro-level implications of the proliferation of non-governmental organizations, private fee-for-service clinics, and new pharmaceuticals against the backdrop of a deteriorating public health system. In this environment, health seekers encounter new challenges and opportunities, relationships between the public, private, and civil sectors transform, and new forms of inequality in access to healthcare abound. This volume connects these themes to critical studies of global and public health, exposing the strictures and apertures of healthcare privatization for marginalized populations in Guatemala.
Culture Environment And Health In The Yucatan Peninsula
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Author : Hugo Azcorra
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-12-11
Culture Environment And Health In The Yucatan Peninsula written by Hugo Azcorra and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-11 with Medical categories.
This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya Period. Human bodies express social relations, and we can read these relations by analyzing biological tissues or systems, and by measuring certain phenotypical traits at the population level. Departing from this theoretical premise, the contributors to this volume analyze the interactions between ecosystems, sociocultural systems and human biology in a specific geographic region to show how changes in sociocultural and natural environment affect the health of a population over time. This edited volume brings together contributions from a range of different scientific disciplines – such as biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, human biology, nutrition, epidemiology, ecotoxicology, political economy, sociology and ecology – that analyze the interactions between culture, environment and health in different domains of human life, such as: The political ecology of food, nutrition and health Impacts of social and economic changes in children’s diet and women’s fertility Biological consequences of social vulnerability in urban areas Impacts of toxic contamination of natural resources on human health Ecological and sociocultural determinants of infectious diseases Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula – A Human Ecology Perspective will be of interest to researchers from the social, health and life sciences dedicated to the study of the interactions between natural environments, human biology, health and social issues, especially in fields such as biological and sociocultural anthropology, health promotion and environmental health. It will also be a useful tool to health professionals and public agents responsible for designing and applying public health policies in contexts of social vulnerability.
Bones Of The Maya
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Author : Stephen L. Whittington
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2006-08-20
Bones Of The Maya written by Stephen L. Whittington and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-20 with History categories.
Includes an indexed bibliography of the first 150 years of Maya osteology. This volume pulls together a spectrum of bioarchaeologists that reveal remarkable data on Maya genetic relationship, demography, and diseases.