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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462694103321

Autore

Harvey T. S. <1972->

Titolo

Wellness beyond words [[electronic resource] ] : Maya compositions of speech and silence in medical care / / T.S. Harvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2013

ISBN

1-283-95997-6

0-8263-5275-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

306.44/97281

Soggetti

Mayan languages - Guatemala

Language and medicine - Guatemala

Oral communication - Guatemala

Anthropological linguistics - Guatemala

Mayas - Languages

Public health - Guatemala

Electronic books.

Guatemala Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Vindication of Voice; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Between Belief and Relief: Apologue of Maya Wellness Seeking In Medias Res; 2: The Ethnography of Polyphony: Dialogue of Disciplines (Needful Divigations of Theory); 3: Which One of You Is the Patient?: Heterologues in Health Care; 4: The Roar on the Other Side of Speaking: Communicative Collogue, the Wordiness of Wordlessness; 5: A Call to Competence: Metalogue (Logos about Logos); 6: Wellness Made Out of Words: Audiologue (Hearing Voices)

7: Vaccinated Voices: Lugubrious Logos (Voices of Lamentation and Vexation)Epilogue: Vital Voices; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Appendix F; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--