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Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine
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Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine Paperback - 1999

by Hernan Garcia; Antonio Sierra; Gilberto Balam


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Translator Jeff Conant is the lead author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008); his articles and essays have been published in independent media and anthologized in the books Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, Confronting Capitalism, We Are Everywhere, and Tipping the Sacred Cow. His book, A Poetics of Resistance: Strategy and Symbol in the Zapatista Communiqués, Being a True Tale of a Possible Better World in its First Untamed Imaginings is forthcoming from AK Press in 2009. His training in Shiatsu and acupressure and work in community development in southern Mexico deeply informed his work translating Wind in the Blood. He currently lives in Northern California.

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MAYAN CULTURE maintains a holistic view of the world, in which every aspect of existence bears relation to every other.

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  • Title Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine
  • Author Hernan Garcia; Antonio Sierra; Gilberto Balam
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A
  • Date October 22, 1999
  • ISBN 9781556433047 / 1556433042
  • Weight 1.78 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.51 x 8.55 x 0.93 in (24.16 x 21.72 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Medicine, Chinese, Mayas - Medicine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99045353
  • Dewey Decimal Code 610.899

Media reviews

"The authors skillfully weave together the fabric of traditional Mayan medicine, using Chinese medicine as the loom. The result is a rich and complex tapestry of indigenous healing practices and contemporary Mayan culture that will surprise and delight a North American audience."
- Medea Benjamin

About the author

Translator Jeff Conant is the lead author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008); his articles and essays have been published in independent media and anthologized in the books Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, Confronting Capitalism, We Are Everywhere, and Tipping the Sacred Cow. His book, A Poetics of Resistance: Strategy and Symbol in the Zapatista Communiqus, Being a True Tale of a Possible Better World in its First Untamed Imaginings is forthcoming from AK Press in 2009. His training in Shiatsu and acupressure and work in community development in southern Mexico deeply informed his work translating Wind in the Blood. He currently lives in Northern California.
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