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Maffi, Luisa.

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A linguistic analysis of Tzeltal Maya ethnosymptomatology.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A linguistic analysis of Tzeltal Maya ethnosymptomatology./
作者:	Maffi, Luisa.
面頁冊數:	521 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2884.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-09A.
標題:	Cultural anthropology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9504901

A linguistic analysis of Tzeltal Maya ethnosymptomatology.
Maffi, Luisa.

A linguistic analysis of Tzeltal Maya ethnosymptomatology. - 521 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2884.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

This work is a semantic study of ethnosymptomatology, the language of signs and symptoms of illness, among the Tzeltal Maya Indians of the community of Tenejapa in Highland Chiapas, Mexico. It analyzes the terminology used by Tenejapans to talk about the manifestations of the ailments recognized in their medical system.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Cultural anthropology.

A linguistic analysis of Tzeltal Maya ethnosymptomatology.
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520 $a This work is a semantic study of ethnosymptomatology, the language of signs and symptoms of illness, among the Tzeltal Maya Indians of the community of Tenejapa in Highland Chiapas, Mexico. It analyzes the terminology used by Tenejapans to talk about the manifestations of the ailments recognized in their medical system.
520 $a By concentrating mostly on what has been called the personalistic system (which implies ascription of illness to human or supernatural agents, and in which attribution of cause is crucial to diagnosis), earlier work on the Highland Maya concluded that knowledge of the body and its functioning is not central, and indeed limited and vague, in Tzeltal and Tzotzil ethnomedicine. Instead, more recent studies of the health conditions attributed to natural causes, which constitute the large majority of the afflictions recognized as common by the Maya, have shown that this knowledge is extensive and specific, and that these illness categories are symptom-based. Furthermore, as elsewhere, verbal descriptions often represent the only intersubjective evidence as to the perceived manifestations of altered health states, thus playing a key role in diagnosis and choice of therapy. Ethnosymptomatological description also encodes an emic perspective on illness classification, pointing to the key features on which the members of a given culture focus when conceptualizing abnormal physical and mental states as specific named illness categories.
520 $a Against this background, the present research focuses on three major illness classes according to Tenejapa Tzeltal classification: "illnesses of the belly", "illnesses of the airways", and "illnesses of the skin", comprising almost 80 out of 275 Tzeltal-named symptom-based illness categories. Linguistic data on attributed signs and symptoms of individual illnesses are derived from an extensive corpus of Tzeltal ethnomedical texts following an explanatory model format. Data analysis reveals an abundance of specific terminology for illness manifestations, which draws particularly from the expressive and sound symbolic resources of the language to convey abnormal sensory experience. The role of the human senses (including inner senses such as pain and distress) in ethnosymptomatological description is also explored, thus contributing to the little-studied domain of the language of experience.
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