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

本研究旨在厘清墨西哥尤卡特玛雅人的宗教活动与他们的医学观的关系。首先，作为基础工作，我对玛雅-西班牙语词典进行了电子文本处理，以提取人体和疾病的玛雅词汇。使用的词典有《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，我对词汇进行了分析，以了解尤卡特玛雅人疾病的身体观和生理观。另一方面，我于2000年9月和2001年8月在墨西哥尤卡坦进行了田野调查，通过尤卡坦玛雅人的线人核对了上述工作中获得的词汇，并观察了他们的宗教和医疗实践。通过这次研究，尤卡特玛雅人如何利用人体上的生理知识来解释和治疗尤卡特玛雅文化研究人员传统上忽视的疾病。尤卡特克玛雅人如何在西班牙殖民统治下将他们最初的医学观点转变为所谓的传统医学也变得很清楚。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人大会上，我展示了这项研究的结果。此外，我还准备了最后一份报告《尤卡特克玛雅人的疾病--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"