U.S.-Mexico Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Cognition and Medical Practice: Cognitive Metaphor in Highland Maya Ethnophysiological Discourse

0121171 BerlinThis Americas Program论文增强项目将支持卡梅隆亚当斯先生在Eloise A.格鲁吉亚大学的柏林。 这项研究与墨西哥恰帕斯州的El Colegio de la Frontera Sur（ECOSUR）合作，旨在使用认知方法来确定高地玛雅人是否具有共同的民族生理学。这种生理学的模型将被开发和开放式访谈的成绩单将被分析为结构化的隐喻use.Because的身体功能的看法通知很多文化定义的医疗行为，包括行为和药物处方和/或prophylaxis的做法，研究人员认为，一个彻底的理解生理学的概念导致更好地理解任何医疗系统。通过对高地玛雅民族生理学的建模，拟议的研究将有助于解决医学和认知人类学中的各种问题，并推动为墨西哥和其他地方的土著人口开发文化上适当的医疗保健提供系统的努力。

0121171BerlinThis Americas Program thesis enhancement project will support thesis dissertation research by Mr. Cameron Adams under the supervision of Dr. Eloise A. Berlin of the University of Georgia. The study, in collaboration with El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in Chiapas, Mexico, aims to use cognitive methods to establish whether the Highland Maya have a shared ethnophysiology. A model of such a physiology will be developed and transcripts of open-ended interviews will be analyzed for structured metaphor usage.Because perceptions of body function inform much of culturally defined medical behavior, including practices such as behavioral and medicinal prescriptions and /or proscriptions, researchers have argued that a thorough understanding of concepts of physiology lead to a greater understanding of any medical system. Through its modeling of Highland Maya ethnophysiology, the proposed research will serve to address various issues in medical and cognitive anthropology and advance efforts at developing culturally appropriate health care delivery systems for indigenous populations in Mexico and elsewhere.