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The sacred nature of Maya bonesetting: ritual validation in an empirical practice
| dc.creator | McMahon, Clarence Edward | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:37:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:37:19Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1994 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1994 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1994-THESIS-M1673 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Bonesetting in San Pedro La Laguna is a medical practice that can be recognized for its objective empirical efficacy. Yet its practitioners, wecol bak, are sacred specialists that accomplish their work through a ritual process that is based upon traditional Mayan spiritual beliefs. To account for the importance of ritual traditions in bonesetting, the narratives of wecol bak are provided as evidence for how the liminality that the healers experience in their recruitment is paralleled by the separate liminal experience of their patients. For both the wecol bak and their patients, the sacred instrument-the h u e s o-that is used in bonesetting symbolizes a potent force for restoring wholeness. | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | anthropology. | en |
| dc.subject | Major anthropology. | en |
| dc.title | The sacred nature of Maya bonesetting: ritual validation in an empirical practice | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | anthropology | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.A. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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