Servando Z. Hinojosa

Servando Z. Hinojosa is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, located in Edinburg, Texas. He is the coeditor of Healing by Hand: Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective.

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Maya Bonesetters

Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala

University of Texas Press

The first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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In This Body

Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit

University of New Mexico Press

This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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