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"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. Bringing together the analytical tools of linguistic and medical anthropology, T. S. Harvey offers a rare comparative glimpse into Maya intra-cultural therapeutic and cross-cultural biomedical interactions"--

Mayas --- Anthropological linguistics --- Oral communication --- Language and medicine --- Mayan languages --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Medicine and language --- Medicine --- Penutian languages --- Languages. --- Guatemala --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Public health. --- Social conditions. --- Public health