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Description of  Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala

Scholarship on Maya healing traditions has focused primarily on the roles of midwives, shamans, herbalists, and diviners. Bonesetters, on the other hand, have been largely excluded from conversations about traditional health practitioners and community health resources. Maya Bonesetters is the first book-length study of bonesetting in Guatemala and situates the manual healing tradition within the current cultural contextone in which a changing medical landscape potentially threatens bonesetters work yet presents an opportunity to strengthen its relevance. Read more