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1 online resource (xiii, 530 pages) : illustrations |
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"In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism and traditional Hispanic medicine, and have incorporated much of the religious tradition of the Amazon, especially its shamanism, sorcery, healing, and the use of potent plant hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. Singing to the Plants sets forth just what this shamanism is about - what happens at an ayahuasca healing ceremony, how the apprentice shaman forms a spiritual relationship with the healing plant spirits, how sorcerers inflict the harm that the shaman heals, and the ways that plants are used in healing, love magic, and sorcery."--Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Shamanism -- Peru -- Maynas
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Healing -- Peru -- Maynas
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Human-plant relationships -- Peru -- Maynas
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Plants -- Peru -- Maynas -- Religious aspects
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Ayahuasca ceremony -- Peru -- Maynas
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Ethnobotany -- Peru -- Maynas
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
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Ayahuasca ceremony
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Ethnobotany
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Healing
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Human-plant relationships
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Manners and customs
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Plants -- Religious aspects
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Shamanism
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Ethnomedizin
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Schamanismus
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Ayahuasca
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Mestizen
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SUBJECT |
Maynas (Peru) -- Religious life and customs
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Maynas (Peru) -- Social life and customs
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Subject |
Peru -- Maynas
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Peru -- Nordost
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Amazonas-Gebiet -- West
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780826347312 |
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0826347312 |
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