Spirits, Shamans, and Stars : : Perspectives from South America / / ed. by David L. Browman, Ronald A. Schwarz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ARANETA, ENRIQUE,; BARTOLOME, MIGUEL ALBERTO,; BOGLÁR, LAJOS,; BROWMAN, DAVID L.,; DE PINHO, ALVARO RUBIM,; DUMONT, JEAN-PAUL,; GAGLIANO, JOSEPH A.,; HARRIS, H. WILLIAM JR.,; KATZ, SOLOMON Η.,; LANGDON, E. JEAN,; McDANIEL,, JOHN M.,; NAIDOO, JAMSIE,; QUINTANILLA, A.,; SCHWARZ, RONALD A.,; SHARON, DOUGLAS,; SINGER, PHILIP,; TAYLOR, KENNETH I.,; WASSEN, S. HENRY,; WILBERT, JOHANNES,
• HerausgeberIn: Browman, David L.,; Schwarz, Ronald A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; Num. maps. and plates

Table of Contents

• I-XIV
• 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-Chiripá
• Effect 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 Conception, 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, Venezuela
• Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars
• Biographical Notes
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects