Journal of Ethnopharmacology
May 1, 1996
C Desmarchelier, A Gurni, G Ciccia et al.
63 citations
The Ese'eja is a hunter-fisher-gatherer tribe of Amerindians which occupies the south-eastern part of Perú. Their culture cannot be disassociated from religious beliefs. Disease can be caused by accident, distraction or indolence, or by evil powers. These evil powers come either from the direct action of a harmful shaman or by interactions with the Devil. A description of shamanic practices is...
Amazonía Peruana
June 14, 1994
Bruno Illius
7 citations
La importancia que tienen los alucinógenos en la función social de los grupos étnicos de la Amazonía es ya conocida. Este artículo nos muestra el recorrido que tiene la producción de la artesanía, labor exclusivamente femenina, y los diseños que emplean para la elaboración de textiles y alfarería. Estos son transmitidos por el shamán que, en la toma de ayahuasca y mediante la alucinación...
Ciba Foundation symposium
1994
R E Schultes
Tropical rain forests offer enormous prospects for the discovery of new drugs for use in Western medicine. The Amazon supports 80,000 species of higher plants and a diverse Indian population. Focusing attention on those plants used as medicines by indigenous peoples is the most efficient way of identifying the plants that contain bioactive compounds. There is an urgent need for more...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
April 1, 1993
Marlene Dobkin De Rios, Charles S. Grob
" Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia ." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 25(2), pp. 177–178
1992
J.-P. Chaumeil
A la fin du siecle dernier, divers cultes religieux d'inspiration indigene ont fleuri un peu partout en Amazonie. Vers 1930, quelque part dans les solitudes du territoire de l'Acre au Bresil, est apparu un etrange culte baptise Santo Daime, du nom d'une liane hallucinogene plus connue au Perou comme ayahuasca, > en langue quechua. Son emploi, on le sait, est ancestral dans le chamanisme...
Anthropology Today
December 1, 1987
David Stoll
2 citations
David Stoll is author of Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire? , a history of the Wycliffe Bible Translators published by Zed Press and Cultural Survival in 1982, and is a graduate student in the anthropology department, Stanford University. Ethnography often has an autobiographical note: here1 we have the story of an anthropologist training to be a shaman. Michael Taussig was a refugee from...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
March 1, 1985
P A De Smet
32 citations
Part one of the paper discusses ethnobotanical, chemical and general pharmacological aspects of intoxicating snuff rituals in the western hemisphere. Four categories of ritual snuff ingredients arise from this multidisciplinary approach: It is well established that the plant contains one or more psychoactive principles and the Indian use of the plant as a ritual snuff ingredient is confirmed or...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
July 1, 1984
L E Luna
78 citations
The use of psychotropic plants among the mestizo population of the northwestern Amazon has already been the subject of some research. However, the field is far from fully investigated. Practitioners locally known by the name of "vegetalistas" or simply "maestros" have preserved considerable knowledge of plant lore, and still today contribute substantially to the health care of both rural and...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
April 1, 1979
P Naranjo
41 citations
This review article focuses on the on-going use of plant hallucinogens, especially various Banisteriopsis species, among contemporary aboriginal populations of Ecuador. It surveys the evidence of prehistoric ayahuasca use by interpretations of Ecuadorian archaeological remains, and surveys in detail the use and belief systems connected to major plant hallucinogenic use among the Jibaro Indians...
Amazonía Peruana
January 14, 1979
Anthony Stocks
2 citations
El "significado" de la música utilizada por un chamán semiurbanizado en el oriente peruano durante una ceremonia de curación de la ayahuasca se aclara mediante un análisis conjunto de estructuras rituales y musicales. Se sugiere que la música en tales rituales alucinógenos es una característica simbólica y estructural importante e integral del ritual, además de proporcionar apoyo psicológico y...