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The Hot and the Cold Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico W. Andrés (Sánchez) Bain, Jacques M. Chevalier

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Examines Indigenous worldview and myth to challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning of health and illness in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century.

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Main Author: Bain, W. Andrés (Sánchez) (Author)
Other Authors: Chevalier, Jacques M. (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press 2016, [2016]
Series:Anthropological Horizons
Subjects:
Nahuas > Ethnobotany > Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State)
Nahuas > Medicine > Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State)
Popoluca Indians > Medicine.
Traditional medicine > Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State)
Nahuas > Medicine
Traditional medicine
Mexico > Veracruz-Llave (State)
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Humoralism
  • CHAPTER TWO. Balance and Movement
  • CHAPTER THREE. Solar Life, Birth, and Diarrhea
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Lovesickness and Fear of the Dead
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Frights and Chaneques
  • CHAPTER SIX. Milpa Medicine and the Lunisolar Calendar
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Corn, Water, and Iguana
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Ants, Turtles, and Thunder
  • CHAPTER NINE. Diffusion and Syncretism
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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