This 157-page book, edited by Dr. Homero Martinez Salgado and Prof. Jesus Salina Pedraza, has six chapters on the household management of diarrhea in six regions of Oaxaca, Mexico. Each region is the ancestral home of a different indigenous group, with its own language.
- Mountain Mixtec, municipio San Pedro Tidaa, municipio San Francisco Nuxano, and Buenavista Tilantongo, which belongs to the municipio of Tilantongo.
- Coastal Mixtec, in the communities of Santa María Jicaltepec and Pinotepa Nacional in the municipio of Pinotepa Nacional.
- Mountain Zapotec, in the communities of San Baltazar Yatzachi el Bajo, Villa Alta and Santa Maria Tavehua, in the municipio of San Andres Solaga.
- Isthmus Zapotec, in the municipio-community of Juchitán de Zaragoza.
- Chinantec, in the municipio-community of San Lucas Ojitlán.
- Mazatec of Upper Papaloapán, in the municipio-community of Huautla de Jiménez.
Each chapter is an ethnographic study of the household management diarrhea written by a bilingual educator in that educator’s mother tongue and translated into Spanish. The rich ethnographic work reported in this book was supported by the Directorate of Medical Benefits and the Medical Research office of the Mexican Social Security Institute and was published originally by office of the Secretaría de Salud in Mexico and the Centro Editorial de Literatura Indígena, A. C. (CELIAC).
Language: Zapotec, Didxa Záa, Binnizá
Full title: ESTUDIO ETNOGRAFICO SOBRE EL MANEJO DE LA ENFERMEDAD DIARREICA EN EL HOGAR EN SEIS REGIONES INDIGENAS DE OAXACA
Editors: Homero Martínez Salgado, Jesús Salinas Pedraza
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