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Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vani
by Rosita Arvigo
Synopses & Reviews Bridging modern medicine with traditional healing, one woman journeys to the diminishing rainforest of Belize to preserve the plant life of that once-abundant pharmacy of ancient Mayan medicine and the remedies of an aging native healer. 8 page photo insert.
Synopsis: The compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo's quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780062502599
- Subtitle:
- One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vani
- With:
- Epstein, Nadine
- With:
- Epstein, Nadine
- Foreword:
- Balick, Michael J.
- Author:
- Arvigo, Rosita
- Author:
- by Rosita Arvigo
- Foreword:
- Balick, Michael J.
- Author:
- Balick, Michael
- Publisher:
- HarperOne
- Location:
- San Francisco :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Medicine
- Subject:
- Treatment
- Subject:
- Herbal Medications
- Subject:
- Ecology
- Subject:
- Anthropology - Cultural
- Subject:
- Central America
- Subject:
- Mayas
- Subject:
- Traditional medicine
- Subject:
- Belize
- Subject:
- Mental healing
- Subject:
- Rain forest ecology
- Subject:
- Medicinal plants
- Subject:
- Ethnobotany
- Subject:
- Plants, Medicinal
- Subject:
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Subject:
- Rain forest ecology -- Belize -- Cayo District.
- Subject:
- Mental Healing -- Belize.
- Subject:
- Maya healers
- Subject:
- General Body, Mind and Spirit
- Subject:
- Mayas -- Medicine.
- Subject:
- Mayas -- Ethnobotany.
- Copyright:
- 1994
- Edition Number:
- 1st ed.
- Edition Description:
- 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed.
- Series Volume:
- 76
- Publication Date:
- February 1995
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 9.34x6.32x.58 in. .56 lbs.
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