Wellness Beyond Words Maya Compositions Of Speech And Silence In Medical Care
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780826352736
Description: "This anthropological account of Maya language use in health care in highland Guatemala explores some of the cultural and linguistic factors that can complicate communication in the practice of medicine. Bringing together the analytical tools of linguistic and medical anthropology, T. S. Harvey offers a rare comparative glimpse into Maya intra-cultural therapeutic and cross-cultural biomedical interactions"--