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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-01 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press
"This book explores how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish settlers attempted to uproot Indigenous Nahua healing practices in the process of creating an
Language: en
Pages: 330
Pages: 330
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Healing by Hand presents the first cross-cultural perspective on manual medicine studies--the practice of body therapists that is routinely overlooked by medica
Language: en
Pages: 422
Pages: 422
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-16 - Publisher: University Press of Colorado
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