Spirits, shamans, and stars : perspectives from South America, editors, David L. Browman, Ronald A. Schwarz

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Spirits, shamans, and stars : perspectives from South America, editors, David L. Browman, Ronald A. Schwarz

Title remainder

perspectives from South America

Statement of responsibility

editors, David L. Browman, Ronald A. Schwarz

Instantiates

• Spirits, shamans, and stars : perspectives from South America

Publication

• The Hague | New York, Mouton, ©1979

Note

"The papers in this volume are an extension of the session Sociocultural Development and Economic Patterns in the Andes, held during the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, September 1973."

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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online resource

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Contents

• 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 ConceptiÃ3n, 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

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811374427

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1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages)

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9783110821031

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Electronic reproduction.

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(OCoLC)811374427

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