Tarahumara medicine : ethnobotany and healing among the Rarámuri of Mexico / Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón with Alfonso Paredes.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Irigoyen Rascón, Fructuoso (Author), Paredes, Alfonso (Author)
Other title:Ethnobotany and healing among the Rarámuri of Mexico.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
Series:Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Tarahumara ecological habitat
  • A historical review of the Tarahumara people
  • Rarámuri, the people and their culture
  • Affiliative social activities of the Tarahumara people
  • Great life occasions and ceremonies : birth and death among the Tarahumara
  • Major festivities of the Tarahumaras
  • Loss-of-health conceptual schemes of the Tarahumaras
  • Rarámuri healers
  • The Jíkuri ceremonial complex
  • Compendium of Tarahumara herbal remedies and healing practices
  • The Tarahumaras : a conventional medical perspective.