Frank J Lipp
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
"This elegantly written and thoroughly researched ethnography" is the definitive study of the Mixe people of mountain Oaxaca (Ethnohistory).
The Mixe of Oaxaca is the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures, design-plan, corresponding prayers, and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals.
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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
Catalog of unusual drug and food plants. Includes over 4500 species (399 families). Arranged under families. Each entry gives such information as Latin species, place of collection, year collected, and common name. Families, genera, common names, and uses indexes.