Journal of Holistic Nursing
November 1, 2010
Lisa L Capps
Ua neeb khu (pronounced "oo-ah neng kue") is a ceremonial healing practice engaged in by Hmong Americans for the treatment of various health problems involving spiritually focused concerns that only a shaman practitioner is qualified to treat. A qualitative ethnographic case study method with participant observation was used to analyze a spiritual healing ceremony performed by a shaman healer...
Journal of Anthropological Research
April 1, 2010
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
13 citations
I draw on ethnographic and archival material collected between 1991 and 2008 to explore the story of a Mapuche shaman in her community in southern Chile and illuminate the ways in which particular marginalized groups see themselves in time. Francisca Colipi's unique position as both an anomalous, liminal outsider and a powerful mediator between internal community factions and ethnicities makes...
Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine
October 12, 2009
Christopher N Herndon, Melvin Uiterloo, Amasina Uremaru et al.
Background: The extensive medicinal plant knowledge of Amazonian tribal peoples is widely recognized in the scientific literature and celebrated in popular lore. Despite this broad interest, the ethnomedical systems and knowledge of disease which guide indigenous utilization of botanical diversity for healing remain poorly characterized and understood. No study, to our knowledge, has attempted...
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
September 1, 2009
Evert Thomas, Ina Vandebroek, Patrick Van Damme et al.
This article addresses two concepts that are quite widespread among Latin American cultures: susto or "'fright sickness," and the "masters of the animal species" philosophy, whereby individual animal spirits are believed to be "owned" by species-specific spiritual masters. This is the first article to integrate both these aspects, drawing from ethnographic data from the Trinitario people in...
Emergency Medicine News
June 1, 2009
Leon Gussow
Quick: Name the person who started the psychedelic movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Most people old enough to understand the question or who read Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test would probably name Ken Kesey, Wavy Gravy, or perhaps Timothy Leary. But the surprising answer is that the concept of deliberately ingesting plants or chemicals to induce hallucinations was introduced into...
2009
Viviana Díaz Balsera
1 citation
This chapter discusses how Maria Sabina embodies the deep-seated legacy of a Mesoamerican competence to encompass and endure that since the colonial period has been laboring to conserve pockets of the pre-Hispanic realm of the sacred, amidst careful observance of the dominant, transcontinental Christian pantheon. Although the historical record is lean and much of it comes from post-Conquest...
Fieldwork in Religion
November 27, 2008
Beatriz Caiuby Labate
The purpose of this text is to provide an overview of Brazilian literature on the principal ayahuasca religions of Brazil: Santo Daime, the Barquinha and the União do Vegetal. To this end, the article offers the most exhaustive survey available of the university theses that have been produced on the subject, published or not; it also deals with various research projects in progress and a few...
Economic Botany
November 1, 2008
Gastón Guzmán
114 citations
Hongos Alucinógenos en México: Historia, Taxonomia, Distribución Geográfica y Uso Tradicional . Psilocybe , con 53 especies alucinógenas conocidas en México, es el grupo más importante y más diverso de hongos sagrados usados por las culturas indígenas mexicanas. Se propone aquí que Psilocybe caerulescens , nombrado por los nahuatls de hoy día teotlaquilnanácatl , es el hongo ceremonial...
Studia Mythologica Slavica
October 16, 2006
Suzana Marjanić
4 citations
I shall attempt to interpret witches' zoopsychonavigations in the worlds of Croatian legends as (possible) aspects of shamanistic techniques of ecstasy (and trance), in the framework of which I shall be trying to designate the concept of zoopsychonavigation as the border of permeation between shamanistic ecstatic experiences and the witches' experience of lethargy.In addition to the above...
Revista de Neurología
2006
Francisco Javier Carod-Artal, C Vázquez-cabrera
27 citations
INTRODUCTION: The San Pedro cactus contains the alkaloid mescaline and other derivates of phenethylamine with hallucinogenic properties. This cactus was used throughout history by a number of different pre-Columbine cultures and civilisations that settled in northern Peru. In this article we review the ethno-archaeological and ethno-historical evidence of the ritual use of the San Pedro cactus...