Tabla de Contenidos:
  • General Editorâ€?s Preface
  • Preface
  • General Introduction: “A Little Glass of Rumâ€?
  • PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
  • Introduction
  • Magico-Religious Use of Tobacco Among South American Indians
  • Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes
  • Was Espingo (Ispincu) of Psychotropic and Intoxicating Importance for the Shamans in Peru?
  • Yagé Among the Siona: Cultural Patterns in Visions
  • PART TWO: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • Introduction
  • Social and Medical Aspects of the Use of Cannabis in Brazil
  • Shamanism Among the Avá-ChiripáEffect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru
  • Learning of Psychodynamics, History, and Diagnosis Management Therapy by a Kali Cult Indigenous Healer in Guiana
  • Effects of Behavioral and Ecological Variations upon the Incidence of Parasitic Disease Among la Gente of Conceptión, Peru
  • PART THREE: SPIRITS, STRUCTURES, AND STARS
  • Introduction
  • Body and Spirit Among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil
  • A Peruvian Curanderoâ€?s Séance: Power and Balance
  • Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, VenezuelaNot in Ourselves, But in Our Stars
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects