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Plant teachers : ayahuasca, tobacco, and the pursuit of knowledge /

"A western anthropologist and an indigenous Peruvian shaman hold a cross-cultural dialogue about the similarities between tobacco and the hallucinogen Ayahuasca and the role these substances both play in the cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon region"--

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Main Authors: Narby, Jeremy
Group Author: Pizuri, Rafael Chanchari
Published: New World Library,
Publisher Address: Novato, California :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Drug use > Peru.
Indians of South America > Tobacco use > Peru.
Ayahuasca > Physiological effect > Peru.
Tobacco > Physiological effect > Peru.
Traditional medicine > Peru.
Traditional medicine > Amazon River Valley.
Ethnopharmacology > Peru.
Ethnopharmacology > Amazon River Valley.
Banisteriopsis caapi > Effets physiologiques > Pérou.
Tabac > Effets physiologiques > Pérou.
Ethnopharmacologie > Pérou.
Ethnopharmacology.
Indians of South America > Drug use.
Indians of South America > Tobacco use.
Tobacco > Physiological effect.
Traditional medicine.
Amazon River Valley.
Peru.
Summary: "A western anthropologist and an indigenous Peruvian shaman hold a cross-cultural dialogue about the similarities between tobacco and the hallucinogen Ayahuasca and the role these substances both play in the cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon region"--
Carrier Form: xiv, 137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-125) and index.
ISBN: 9781608687732
1608687732
Index Number: F3429
CLC: R163.2
Call Number: R163.2/N221
Contents: Medicine and Malice: Tobacco from an Indigenous Perspective -- Remedy and Poison: The Science of Tobacco -- Two-Sided Purge: Ayahuasca from an Indigenous Perspective -- Discombobulating Therapeutic Cocktail: The Science of Ayahuasca.

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