""This book is a comprehensive ethnographic survey of the uses of tobacco in nearly three hundred Indian societies in South America. . . . This meticulously written book . . . is an awesome piece of scholarship which should be of interest not only to Wilbert's fellow anthropologists but also to scholars in medicine, pharmacology, and history, especially ethnohistory.""-Virgil J. Vogel, Ethnohistory

Tobacco and shamanism in South America (Psychoactive plants of the world)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilbert, Johannes

Social Sciences

Yale University Press

Anthropologist Johannes Wilbert here presents a comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies. Surveying nearly three hundred societies, Wilbert has found that South American Indians employ numerous means of nicotine application and that a close functional relationship exists between tobacco and shamanism. His book is "a superb reference and a pleasure to read."—Robert Byck, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

Tobacco and Shamanism in South America (Psychoactive Plants of the World Series)

"In my opinion this project of publications devoted to folk literature of South America is of paramount importance. South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par with the great masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity and of the Near and Far East. At the present time this material is scattered in numerous publications most of which are not easy to locate. It would do a great service to scholars all over the world and to the general public to have them collected in a series of volumes."--Claude Levi-Strauss "It is time we had a set of volumes containing good source material for those who wish to study South American indigenous narratives; I am also quite certain that many nonspecialists would be interested in original documents of this kind."--Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians (UCLA Latin American Studies)

History

Americas

University of California Press

Enculturation in Latin America: An anthology (UCLA Latin American studies)

UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California

Folk Literature of the Tehuelche Indians (UCLA Latin American Studies)

Univ of California at LA

Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

"Collection includes some of the author's most important essays written during 25 years of research among the Warao of the Orinoco Delta. Focus is on religious life, for which author provides in-depth comparative and historical interpretations of the symbolic values the Warao bestow on environmental, material, and social processes, revealing how Warao experience of life and the material conditions of existence are endowed with religious and mystical significance. This approach, outside of studies of the Guarani, has rarely been explored in South American ethnology"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Anthropology

Center for the Study of World Religions

Comprising nearly 30,000 individuals, the Warao of the Orinoco Delta in northeastern Venezuela are one of the largest contemporary Indian societies of Amazonia. Survival under the extreme ecological conditions of the deltaic marshland, however, demands of its occupants exceptional adaptive agility and an affirmative disposition toward acculturative change. In Mindful of Famine, Johannes Wilbert presents the Warao's response to the climatological challenge of their homeland, deftly weaving the strands of geographic, atmospheric, biological, and cultural lore and learning into a rich tapestry of environmental wisdom.

Mindful of Famine: Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions

For the Warao of the Venezuelan Orinoco Delta, survival$ under the extreme ecological conditions of the deltaic marshland requ$ exceptional adaptive agility. Johannes Wilbert presents the Warao's response to the climatological challenge of their homeland, deftly weaving the strands of geographic, atmospheric, biological, and cultu$ lore and learning into a rich tapestry of environmental wisdom. This volume, in the Religions of the World series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Center for the Study of Worl$ Religions.

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Tobacco and shamanism in South America (Psychoactive plants of the world)

Tobacco and Shamanism in South America (Psychoactive Plants of the World Series)

Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians (UCLA Latin American Studies)

Enculturation in Latin America: An anthology (UCLA Latin American studies)

Folk Literature of the Tehuelche Indians (UCLA Latin American Studies)

Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

Mindful of Famine: Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

Mindful of Famine: Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)