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A Medico-anthropological Study on Religious Practices of the Yucatec Maya in Mexico.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11610315
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

YOSHIDA Shigeto  Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Associate Professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 助教授 (10240285)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2001
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
KeywordsYucatan / Mayan language / folk medicine / religion / 医療人類学
Research Abstract

This research was aimed at clarifying the religious practices of the Yucatec Mayas in Mexico, in relation to their medical view.
First, as the fundamental work for this purpose, I carried out electronic text-ization of the Maya-Spanish dictionaries, in order to extract the Mayan vocabularies of the human body and the diseases. The used dictionaries are "Motul dictionary", the 'Vienna dictionary", the "San Francisco dictionary", and J. Pio Perez'"Dictionary of the Language of Maya"(1866-1877). As finished this work, I proceeded in analyzing the vocabularies so as to know about the body view and the physiological view of the diseases of the Yucatec Maya.
On the other hand, I conducted field researches in Yucatan, Mexico, in September of 2000 and August of 2001, in which occasions I had the vocabularies obtained from the work mentioned above, checked by the Yucatec Mayan informants, and I observed their religious and medical practices.
By this research, it became clear how the Yucatec Mayan people use the physiological knowledge on the human body to explain and treat the illness, which has been conventionally overlooked by the researchers on the Yucatec Mayan cultures. And it became clear also how the Yucatec Maya transformed their original medical view under the Spanish colonial rule, into the so called traditional medicine.
I presented the result of this research in the Japanese Latin American Society's Research Convention held in Nagoya University on June 2, 2001, and at the 5th International Mayanist Congress held in Xalapa, Mexico on July 25, 2001. Moreover, I prepared the last report "The Illness of the Yucatec Maya - A Taxonomical Analysis of the Vocabularies of the Maya-Spanish Dictionaries"

Report

(4 results)
  • 2001 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All Other

All Publications (2 results)

  • [Publications] YOSHIDA, Shigeto: "Conceptos fisiologicos sobre las enfermedades de los mayas yucatecos : un analisis taxonmico de vocablos en los diccionarios coloniales de La lengua maya"Antje Gunsenheimer, et al. (eds.) Texto y Contexto : Perspectivas intraculturales en el analisis de la literatura maya yucateca(印刷中).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Shigeto Yoshida: "Conceptos fisiologicos sobre las enfermedades de los mayas yucatecos : un analisis taxonomico de vocables en los diccionarios coloniales de la lengua maya"In Antje Gunsenheimer, et al. (eds.) Textoy Contexto : Perspectivas intraculturales en el analisis de la literatura maya yucateca. Bonner Amerikanistische Studien. Bonn, Germany : Universitat Bonn..

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary

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Published: 1999-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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