The hot and the cold : ills of humans and maize in native Mexico /

The hot and the cold : ills of humans and maize in native Mexico /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949- author.
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 301 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropological horizons Anthropological horizons.
Subject:	Nahuas -- Medicine -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) Popoluca Indians -- Medicine. Traditional medicine -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) Nahuas -- Ethnobotany -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) Popoluca Indians -- Ethnobotany. Corn -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) -- Folklore. Medicine, Traditional -- Mexico. Ethnobotany -- Mexico. Folklore -- Mexico. Indians, North American -- Mexico. Zea mays -- history -- Mexico. Corn. Nahuas -- Medicine. Traditional medicine. Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) Electronic books. Folklore.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11141027

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Other authors / contributors:	Bain, Andrés Sánchez, author.
ISBN:	9781442681460 1442681462 9780802036919 0802036910
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"In The Hot and the Cold, Jacques Chevalier and Andres Sanchez Bain examine aspects of indigenous world views and myths, and challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century." "Based on extensive field work in southern Veracruz, this innovative study discusses folk tales and stories of illness from indigenous people, and provides explanations that emphasize the close connections between healing practices, milpa (corn field) cultivation, and corn mythology, indicating that human health and the life cycle of the corn plant are governed by the same principles founded on native concepts of the hot and the cold. Notions of what is cold and what is hot influence the ways in which the Nahuas and Zoque-Popolucas of the Sierra de Santa Marta think about their relationship with the land and all entities that surround them, including fellow humans, plants, animals, and spirits. By revealing the connections between ethnomedicine, agriculture, and mythology, Chevalier and Sanchez Bain help clarify puzzling aspects of Mesoamerican religion and symbolic thought, and lead the way towards a better understanding of indigenous perspectives in the modern world."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949- Hot and the cold. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003 9780802036919

Table of Contents:

Humoralism
Balance and movement
Solar life, birth, and diarrhea
Lovesickness and fear of the dead
Frights and Chanegues
Milpa medicine and the lunisolar calendar
Corn, water, and iguana
Ants, turtles, and thunder
Diffusion and syncretism.