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Dans un village indien des montagnes du Chiapas, au sud-est du Mexique, se déroule, sous couvert d’un "Carnaval", un flamboyant bras de fer entre les hommes et les dieux : de la guerre à la familiarisation, de la séduction à l’agressivité, ce rituel déploie toute la gamme des émotions sociales dans un immense échange de biens et de promesses. Acteurs, forces, espaces et temps s’animent pour re-générer la Tradition, pour arracher de haute lutte aux forces ambivalentes l’assurance d’un avenir et pour "maintenir" la vie des corps et du monde ; pour que dans l’image troublée des destins humains se dessine la volonté des Mayas de vivre, jus­qu’à l’épuisement, contre les projets obscurs des entités surnaturelles en dépit de la pauvreté, de la souffrance et des sacrifices. La "guerre rouge", figure emblématique de cette lutte, condense jusqu’à l’incandescence les débris de l’Histoire – préhispanique, coloniale et moderne –, la mémoire et l’oubli, les gestes et les paroles, avec, pour héros, des hommes enceints et des femmes qui frayent avec des singes. L’expédition en forêt, l’attaque simulée du village, le banquet des animaux et des instruments de musique, la danse des princesses et des sauvages sont autant d’épisodes singuliers ici longuement décrits pour la première fois. Les conclusions s’attachent à placer ce rituel dans le temps long, fai­sant éclater la supposée unité interprétative d’une communauté sur son propre rituel, et dévoilent dans l’intrication des croyances une véritable politique du sacré.

Mayas --- Social life and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Rites et cérémonies --- Tzeltal Indians --- Carnival --- Bachajón (Mexico) --- Rites et cérémonies --- Fasnacht --- Fastnacht --- Mardi Gras (Festival) --- Pre-Lenten festivities --- Festivals --- Masks --- Shrove Tuesday --- Celdal Indians --- Tseltal Indians --- Tzel-tal Indians --- Tzeldal Indians --- Tzendal Indians --- Tzental Indians --- Zendal Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Social life and customs. --- Bachajón, Mexico --- Tzeltal Indians - Rites and ceremonies --- Tzeltal Indians - Social life and customs --- Carnival - Mexico - Bachajón --- Bachajón (Mexico) - Social life and customs --- croyance --- musicologie --- linguistique --- rituel --- ethnologie --- Tzeltal (Indiens) --- Fêtes --- Carnavals --- Mexique --- Chiapas (Mexique)

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Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that confirms the scientific foundations of traditional Maya medicine. Data drawn from analysis of the medical practices of two Mayan-speaking peoples, the Tzeltal and Tzotzil, reveal that they have developed a large number of herbal remedies based on a highly sophisticated understanding of the physiology and symptomatology of common diseases and on an in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants. Here Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin, along with their many collaborators, provide detailed information on Maya disease classification, symptomatology, and treatment of the most significant health conditions affecting the Highland Maya, the gastrointestinal diseases.The authors base their work on broad-ranging comparative ethno-medical and ethnobotanical data collected over seven years of original field research. In describing the Mayas' understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, Berlin and Berlin show that the plants used as remedies are condition specific.› Moreover, laboratory studies demonstrate that the most commonly agreed upon herbal remedies are potentially effective against the pathogenic agents underlying specific diseases and that they strongly affect the physiological processes associated with intestinal peristalsis. These findings suggest that the traditional Maya medical system is the result of long-term explicit empirical experimentation with the effects of herbal remedies on bodily function.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Ethnobiology --- Gastrointestinal system --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Traditional medicine --- Tzeltal Indians --- Tzotzil Indians. --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Batsi Kop Indians (Tzotzil) --- Chamula Indians --- Cinanteco Indians --- Quelem Indians --- Quelene Indians --- Querene Indians --- Tsotsil Indians --- Tzinanteco Indians --- Zotzil Indians --- Zozil Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Mayas --- Celdal Indians --- Tseltal Indians --- Tzel-tal Indians --- Tzeldal Indians --- Tzendal Indians --- Tzental Indians --- Zendal Indians --- Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Botanical drugs --- Drugs from plants --- Medicinal plants --- Phytotherapy --- Plant drugs --- Vegetable drugs --- Materia medica --- Botanical drug industry --- Botany, Medical --- Gastro-intestinal system --- Gastrointestinal tract --- GI tract --- Tract, Gastrointestinal --- Tract, GI --- Alimentary canal --- Digestive organs --- Folk biology --- Folkbiology --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional biology --- Biology, Economic --- Ethnoscience --- Diseases&delete& --- Treatment --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Therapeutic use --- Tzotzil Indians --- Tzeltal Indians. --- Diseases --- Treatment.