Bodily remembering: Memory, place, and understanding Latino folk illnesses among the Amuzgos Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 527-545

  Cartwright, Elizabeth ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amuzgos; Bodily remembering; Coraje; Emotion; Latino folk illness; Oaxaca

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEXICO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WITCHCRAFT;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRISTIANITY; DIARRHEA; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEDICINE, HERBAL; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MEMORY; MENTAL HEALING; MEXICO; NARRATION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 36549068868     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-007-9063-1     Document Type: Article

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