An Imperative to Cure
by James B. WaldramFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2020-11-01
Publisher(s): University of New Mexico Press
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
James B. Waldram is a professor of medical and applied anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Hound Pound Narrative: Sexual Offender Habilitation and the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention and Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples.
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