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Wellness Beyond Words : Maya Compositions of Speech and Silence in Medical Care.
Title:
Wellness Beyond Words : Maya Compositions of Speech and Silence in Medical Care.
Author:
Harvey, T.S.
ISBN:
9780826352750
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Contents:
Half title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue Vindication of Voice -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Between Belief and Relief: Apologue of Maya Wellness Seeking In Medias Res -- 2 The Ethnography of Polyphony: Dialogue of Disciplines (Needful Divigations of Theory) -- 3 Which One of You Is the Patient?: Heterologues in Health Care -- 4 The Roar on the Other Side of Speaking: Communicative Collogue, the Wordiness of Wordlessness -- 5 A Call to Competence: Metalogue (Logos about Logos) -- 6 Wellness Made Out of Words: Audiologue (Hearing Voices) -- 7 Vaccinated Voices: Lugubrious Logos (Voices of Lamentation and Vexation) -- Epilogue Vital Voices -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Responding to the need for in-depth ethnographic studies in cultural and communicative competence, this anthropological account of Maya language use in health care in highland Guatemala explores some of the cultural and linguistic factors that can complicate communication in the practice of medicine.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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