Bøger af Servando Z. Hinojosa

"The book discusses traditional Maya bonesetting, situating it in a global context, examining its approaches (both empirical and spiritual), and considering some of the pragmatic choices such bonesetters make with respect to biomedicine"--

The Kaqchikel Maya, who live in the highlands of central Guatemala, experience soul as part of a continuum of bodily states. This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.