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The shaman who defeated etsá sickness (smallpox)essay 1996 • Casillas Romo, Armando & Chávez, Carlos
Huichol • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
This ethnolinguistic study looks at ways the Huichol classify disease and employ remedial therapeutics. It shows that the Huichol use suffixes and prefixes that convey specific states of malaise or illness, be they physical, mental, or spiritual. The...