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Show 200 Indigenista, XXIX (December, 1969), pp. 253-267. English summary: This paper will attempt to show the extent of integration which has occurred among the Kickapoo Indians in the area of folk and modern medicine during their residence in Coahuila, Mixico, since the 1850's. This group, belonging to the Central Algonquian Indians of Wisconsin emigrated to Mexico and were given a grant of land where they have maintained themselves in virtual isolation by refusing formal schooling and evangelization. Rubel, Arthur J., "Analisis Funcional y Efectos Negativos de Algunas Creencias Acerca de la Causacion de Enfermedades," Anuario Indigenista, XXIX (December, 1969), pp. 269-275. English summary: This paper addresses itself to beliefs held by Mexican-Americans about illness caused by witchcraft, and how such beliefs function in a Mexican- American neighborhood. During the course of this discussion two mechanisms of witchcraft-envidia and mal puesto-will be compared and contrasted. According to the cultural system of these Mexican- Americans, both mal puesto and envidia represent prominent sources of illness; together they comprise the ethological category of mal artificial, contrasting with the category of mal natural. Following those descriptions of witchcraft beliefs, envidia will be singled out for functional analysis. It will be shown that although envidia is clearly related functionally to other parts of the Mexican-American neighborhood within the national society,effects are demonstrably negative. Of considerable theoretical importance is the discovery that envidia is functional in both the open, noncorporate communities characteristic of Mexican-American neighborhoods in the United States, and closed corporate peasant communities in Mexico, but that its effects are negative in the former setting, and positive in the latter environment. 1970 Lopez Austin, Alfredo, "Ideas Etiologicas en la Medicina Nahuatl," Anuario Indigenista, XXX (December, 1970), pp. 255-275. First and last pages of the article are contained in the annual, but the middle pages are a repeat of the preceeding article ("Un Mercado en Chinchero"). |