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Title Spirits, shamans, and stars : perspectives from South America / editors, David L. Browman, Ronald A. Schwarz
Published The Hague ; New York : Mouton, ©1979

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Series World anthropology
World anthropology.
Contents General Editor�s Preface -- Preface -- General Introduction: “A Little Glass of Rum� -- 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 Curandero�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
Notes "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 Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Indians of South America -- Medicine -- Congresses
Indians of South America -- Religion -- Congresses
Shamanism -- South America -- Congresses
Shamanism.
Ethnology -- South America.
Shamanism -- South America
Astrology.
Medical anthropology.
Shamanism
Medicine, Traditional
Indians, South American
Astrology
Anthropology, Medical
shamanism.
astrology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Medical anthropology
Ethnology
Astrology
Indians of South America -- Medicine
Indians of South America -- Religion
Shamanism
Geschichte
Magie
Sjamanisme.
Drugs.
Geneeskunde.
Indianen.
Het Bovennatuurlijke.
South America
Südamerika
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Browman, David L.
Schwarz, Ronald A.
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.)
LC no. 81103991
ISBN 9783110821031
3110821036