Narrativas del padecimiento “mental”: arenas de debate en torno a prácticas sociales y a los valores que las sustentan entre los mayas tzotziles y tzeltales del sur de México

Through narrative accounts this paper examines the particular meanings related to two local categories of illness amongst the tzotzil and tzeltal Maya peoples of Southern Mexico, whose symptoms are similar to those of Western concepts of psychiatric disorder. Given the character of the accounts in t...

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Main Author: Enrique Eroza
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2008-10-01
Series:Revista de Antropología Social
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RASO/article/view/9921