Wade Davis

2 papers in the library · 35 citations · publishing 1992-2001

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The Light at the Edge of the World

March 6, 2001 Wade Davis 2 citations

Wade Davis (1953-), Canadian ethnobotanist and writer, National Geographic Society Explorer, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986) and One River (1996).

DOI: 10.18235/0007944 Indigenous knowledge Traditional knowledge Native knowledge Aboriginal knowledge +21

Identity of a New World Psychoactive Toad

Ancient Mesoamerica 1992 Wade Davis, Andrew T. Weil 33 citations

AbstractAnthropologists have long speculated that ancient peoples of Mesoamerica used a toad,Bufo marinus, as a ritual intoxicant. This hypothesis rests on many iconographic and mythological representations of toads and on a number of speculative ethnographic reports. We rejectB. marinusas a candidate for such use because of the toxicity of its venom. A more likely candidate is the Sonoran...

DOI: 10.1017/s0956536100002297 5-MEO-DMT Ancient mesoamerican rituals Sonoran desert toad Ethnopharmacology