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

Title
Wellness beyond words : Maya compositions of speech and silence in medical care / T. S. Harvey.
Author
Harvey, T. S., 1972-
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.

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xii, 243 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books.
Alternative Title
Maya compositions of speech and silence in medical care
Subject
  • Social Conditions
  • Communication
  • Anthropology, Medical
  • Public Health
  • Language
  • Mayan languages > Guatemala
  • Language and medicine > Guatemala
  • Oral communication > Guatemala
  • Anthropological linguistics > Guatemala
  • Mayas > Languages
  • Public health > Guatemala
  • Guatemala
  • Guatemala > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-240) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Between Belief and Relief: Apologue of Maya Wellness Seeking In Medias Res -- The Ethnography of Polyphony: Dialogue of Disciplines (Needful Divigations of Theory) -- Which One of You Is the Patient?: Heterologues in Health Care -- The Roar on the Other Side of Speaking: Communicative Collogue, the Wordiness of Wordlessness -- A Call to Competence: Metalogue (Logos about Logos) -- Wellness Made Out of Words: Audiologue (Hearing Voices) -- Vaccinated Voices: Lugubrious Logos (Voices of Lamentation and Vexation).
ISBN
  • 9780826352736 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0826352731 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780826352750 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0826352758 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2012035739
OCLC
  • 794366610
  • SCSB-11312835
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library