Wellness beyond words [[electronic resource] ] : Maya compositions of speech and silence in medical care / / T.S. Harvey
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| Autore: |
Harvey T. S. <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Wellness beyond words [[electronic resource] ] : Maya compositions of speech and silence in medical care / / T.S. Harvey
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| Pubblicazione: | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.44/97281 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mayan languages - Guatemala |
| Language and medicine - Guatemala | |
| Oral communication - Guatemala | |
| Anthropological linguistics - Guatemala | |
| Mayas - Languages | |
| Public health - Guatemala | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Guatemala Social conditions |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Wellness beyond words |
| ISBN: | 1-283-95997-6 |
| 0-8263-5275-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462694103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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