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Start Over Topic mexico Publication Year Range More than 50 years ago Journal american anthropologist
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2. On Mexican Folk Medicine

Author

John M. Ingham

Subjects
Rural Population, Folk medicine, Balance (metaphysics), History, Physiology, Temperature, History, 19th Century, Therapeutics, History, 20th Century, humanities, Peasant, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Anthropology, Medicine, Traditional, Social science, Mexico, World view
Abstract

In this paper traditional medical beliefs and practices in a Mexican village are described and interpreted. The analysis focuses on the notion that health is a balance of hot and cold within the body. Several lines of evidence are used to reveal the metaphorical meanings of hot and cold, and these meanings are then seen to be related to structural features of peasant society.

Published
1970