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

这项研究的目的是澄清墨西哥尤卡泰克玛雅人的宗教习俗，与他们的医学观点有关。首先，作为这项工作的基础工作，我对玛雅-西班牙语词典进行了电子文本化，以提取人体和疾病的玛雅词汇。使用的词典是“Motul词典”，“维也纳词典”，“旧金山词典”和J. Pio Perez的“玛雅语言词典”（1866-1877）。在完成这项工作后，我继续分析词汇，以了解尤加特玛雅人对疾病的身体观和生理观。另一方面，我在2000年9月和2001年8月在墨西哥的尤卡坦进行了实地研究，在这些场合，我从上面提到的工作中获得了词汇，由尤卡坦的玛雅线人检查，我观察了他们的宗教和医疗习惯。通过这项研究，人们清楚地了解了尤卡坦玛雅人是如何利用人体生理学知识来解释和治疗疾病的，这一点一直被研究尤卡坦玛雅文化的研究人员所忽视。我们也清楚地看到，尤卡特玛雅人是如何在西班牙殖民统治下将他们原有的医学观点转变为所谓的传统医学的。我于2001年6月2日在名古屋大学举行的日本拉丁美洲协会研究大会上，以及2001年7月25日在墨西哥哈拉帕举行的第五届国际玛雅主义者大会上，提出了这项研究的结果。此外，我还准备了最后一份报告“尤卡坦玛雅人的疾病——玛雅-西班牙语词典词汇的分类分析”。

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"