Changing food and medical beliefs and practices in a Guatemalan community† ‡

Cosminsky, Sheila

doi:10.1080/03670244.1975.9990426

Cited by 42 publications

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“…Madsen 1955: 125). Similar correlations are reported by, among others, Cosminsky (1977), Ingham (1970), Messer (1981), and Molony ( 1975). This is also true for Tzintzuntzan.…”

Section: Manual De Medicinas Caseras (Manual Of Homesupporting

confidence: 90%

“…1985W. Madsen 1955); Guatemala (Cosminsky 1975;Logan 1973a); El Salvador (author's 1951 fieldnotes); Honduras (Adams 1957:601); Costa Rica (Orso 1970); Panama (Adams 1957:105); Colombia (Reichel-Dolmatoff and Reichel-Dolmatoff 1959;VelQuez 1958); Ecuador (Mufioz- Bernard 1979); Peru (Mazess 1968;Stein 1%1:8&86); Bolivia (Bastien 1983:89); Chile (Grebe et al 1971;Simmons 1955); Paraguay (Service and Service 1954:256260, 306-307); Brazil (Queiroz 1984); Venezuela (Suhrez 1973:382;1974:4647); Haiti (Wiese 1976); Puerto Rico (Hanvood 1971); Trinidad (Ah0 and Minott 1977); Philippines ( Hart 1969).…”

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confidence: 99%

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On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America

Foster

1987

Med Anthropol Q

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For the past half‐century humoral medicine has been recognized by anthropologists to be the most important and widespread ethnomedical system in Latin America. While most scholars believe this system is largely a simplified folk variant of classical Greek and Persian humoral pathology, a small minority—particularly Audrey Butt Colson and Alfredo López Austin—argues for a New World origin. In this paper the author supports the former hypothesis by tracing the well‐documented history of classical medicine from Greece and Persia to Latin America, where it was disseminated via formal medical education, hospitals and missionary orders, home medical guides and pharmacies. The fallacies in the arguments of Colson and López Austin are also pointed out.

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“…Madsen 1955: 125). Similar correlations are reported by, among others, Cosminsky (1977), Ingham (1970), Messer (1981), and Molony ( 1975). This is also true for Tzintzuntzan.…”

Section: Manual De Medicinas Caseras (Manual Of Homesupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Not=mentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America

Foster

1987

Med Anthropol Q

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“…At the very least, investigators should follow an approach similar to that employed, for example, by Cosminsky (1969) and Mazess (1968). Both authors provide the number and percent of informants defining given items as hot or cold.…”

Section: Uniformist Interpretationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Part five: Anthropological research on the hot‐cold theory of disease: Some methodological suggestions

Logan

1977

Medical Anthropology

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“…These cultural classifications exhibit intracultural variation and are subject to rapid modification through culture contact and cultural diffusion. Latin American immigrants in the I United States generally classify greens as "cold" [38], as do societies in Guatemala [39], China [40], and Malaysia [41]. The implications of a "cold" classification relate to proscription during illness and certain seasons.…”

Section: Exclusion From the Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%