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Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country
ISBN: 9780806138596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When the traditional meets the modern, nowhere is the impact felt as personally as in the realm of health care. Because practitioners trained in Western science tend to ignore traditional medicine in developing countries, conflict is inevitable. "Health Care in Maya Guatemala" examines medical systems and institutions in three K iche Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system. The editors and contributors show how people in this rapidly modernizing society think about traditional practices and reveal that health... When the traditional meets the modern, nowhere is the impact felt as personally as in the realm of health care. Because practitioners trained in We... |
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102,47 zł |
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Roads to Change in Maya Guatemala: A Field School Approach to Understanding the K'Iche"
ISBN: 9780806137308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between 1995 and 1997, three groups of college students each spent two months in K'iche' Maya villages in Guatemala. In this enlightening book, Hawkins and Adams describe their field-school method of involving undergraduate students in primary research and ethnographic writing, and then present the best of the student essays, which examine the effects of modernization of K'iche' Maya religion, courtship, marriage, gender relations, education, and community development.
Between 1995 and 1997, three groups of college students each spent two months in K'iche' Maya villages in Guatemala. In this enlightening book, Hawkin...
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132,46 zł |
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Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State
ISBN: 9780806143453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The possibility of violence beneath a thin veneer of civil society is a fact of daily life for twenty-first-century Guatemalans, from field laborers to the president of the country. Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala explores the causes and consequences of governmental failure by focusing on life in two K'iche' Maya communities in the country's western highlands. The contributors to this volume, who lived among the villagers for some time, include both undergraduate students and distinguished scholars. They describe the ways Mayas struggle to survive and make sense of their... The possibility of violence beneath a thin veneer of civil society is a fact of daily life for twenty-first-century Guatemalans, from field laborer... |
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102,47 zł |