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- catalog abstract ""In The Hot and the Cold, Jacques Chevalier and Andres Sanchez Bain examine aspects of indigenous world views and myths, and challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century." "Based on extensive field work in southern Veracruz, this innovative study discusses folk tales and stories of illness from indigenous people, and provides explanations that emphasize the close connections between healing practices, milpa (corn field) cultivation, and corn mythology, indicating that human health and the life cycle of the corn plant are governed by the same principles founded on native concepts of the hot and the cold. Notions of what is cold and what is hot influence the ways in which the Nahuas and Zoque-Popolucas of the Sierra de Santa Marta think about their relationship with the land and all entities that surround them, including fellow humans, plants, animals, and spirits. By revealing the connections between ethnomedicine, agriculture, and mythology, Chevalier and Sanchez Bain help clarify puzzling aspects of Mesoamerican religion and symbolic thought, and lead the way towards a better understanding of indigenous perspectives in the modern world."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12806681.
- catalog contributor b12806682.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""In The Hot and the Cold, Jacques Chevalier and Andres Sanchez Bain examine aspects of indigenous world views and myths, and challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century." "Based on extensive field work in southern Veracruz, this innovative study discusses folk tales and stories of illness from indigenous people, and provides explanations that emphasize the close connections between healing practices, milpa (corn field) cultivation, and corn mythology, indicating that human health and the life cycle of the corn plant are governed by the same principles founded on native concepts of the hot and the cold. Notions of what is cold and what is hot influence the ways in which the Nahuas and Zoque-Popolucas of the Sierra de Santa Marta think about their relationship with the land and all entities that surround them, including fellow humans, plants, animals, and spirits. By revealing the connections between ethnomedicine, agriculture, and mythology, Chevalier and Sanchez Bain help clarify puzzling aspects of Mesoamerican religion and symbolic thought, and lead the way towards a better understanding of indigenous perspectives in the modern world."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Humoralism -- Balance and movement -- Solar life, birth, and diarrhea -- Lovesickness and fear of the dead -- Frights and Chanegues -- Milpa medicine and the lunisolar calendar -- Corn, water, and iguana -- Ants, turtles, and thunder -- Diffusion and syncretism.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-282) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 301 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0802036910 :".
- catalog isPartOf "Anthropological horizons ; 24".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Veracruz-Llave (State)".
- catalog spatial "Mexico".
- catalog spatial "Mexico.".
- catalog subject "2003 F-793".
- catalog subject "306.4/61/08997452 21".
- catalog subject "Corn Mexico Veracruz-Llave (State) Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Ethnobotany Mexico.".
- catalog subject "F1221.N3 C5338 2003".
- catalog subject "Folklore Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Indians of Mexico Agriculture.".
- catalog subject "Indians of Mexico Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Indians, North American Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Medicine, Traditional Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Nahuas Ethnobotany Mexico Veracruz-Llave (State)".
- catalog subject "Nahuas Medicine Mexico Veracruz-Llave (State)".
- catalog subject "Popoluca Indians Ethnobotany.".
- catalog subject "Popoluca Indians Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Traditional medicine Mexico Veracruz-Llave (State)".
- catalog subject "WB 50 DM4 C527h 2003".
- catalog subject "Zea mays Mexico History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Humoralism -- Balance and movement -- Solar life, birth, and diarrhea -- Lovesickness and fear of the dead -- Frights and Chanegues -- Milpa medicine and the lunisolar calendar -- Corn, water, and iguana -- Ants, turtles, and thunder -- Diffusion and syncretism.".
- catalog title "The hot and the cold : ills of humans and maize in Native Mexico / Jacques M. Chevalier, Andrés Sanchez Bain.".
- catalog type "text".