Tobacco and Shamanism in South America
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Johannes Wilbert
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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An ethnography of magic-religious, medicinal and recreational tobacco use among nearly 300 native South American societies. Wilbert found that South American In
Portals of Power
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: E. Jean Matteson Langdon
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher:

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Shamans and their practices have fascinated Western civilization since publication of the earliest ethnographies. Yet, alien to a positivistic worldview and cha
The Master Plant
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Andrew Russell
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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Described as a ‘master plant’ by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of ev
Spirits, Shamans, and Stars
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: David L. Browman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Plant Teachers
Language: en
Pages: 154
Authors: Jeremy Narby
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-31 - Publisher: New World Library

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A trailblazing anthropologist and an indigenous Amazonian healer explore the convergence of science and shamanism “The dose makes the poison,” says an old a