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Multiculturele vorming tussen betrokkenheid en distantie

Wildemeersch, Danny; 8855;

status: published

Visiones sobre el temazcal mesoamericano: un elemento cultural polifacético

Romero Contreras, Alejandro Tonatiuh

This paper examines the way in which the concept of the “temazcal” or Mesoamerican steam bath, was reduced and simplified to having only medicinal and therapeutic characteristics. This exclusively curative vision, constructed from the time of the colonial period, was reinforced by positivism which denied and attacked other functions that previously...