An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of q'Eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize

by James B. Waldram

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826364446
• ISBN13: 9780826364449
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"