"The hands know": Bodily engagement and medical impasse in highland Maya bonesetting

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 22-40

  Hinojosa, Servando Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied knowledge; Manual medicine; Maya bonesetters

Indexed keywords

EID: 9344240172     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2002.16.1.22     Document Type: Review

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