| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 530 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index. |
| Summary |
"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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shamanism -- Peru -- Maynas.
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Shamanism. |
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Peru -- Maynas. |
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Healing -- Peru -- Maynas.
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Healing. |
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Human-plant relationships -- Peru -- Maynas.
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Human-plant relationships. |
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Plants -- Peru -- Maynas -- Religious aspects.
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Plants. |
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Ayahuasca ceremony -- Peru -- Maynas.
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Ayahuasca ceremony. |
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Ethnobotany -- Peru -- Maynas.
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Ethnobotany. |
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Maynas (Peru) -- Religious life and customs.
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Maynas (Peru) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beyer, Stephan V., 1943- Singing to the plants 9780826347299 (DLC) 2009021509 (OCoLC)383816154 |
| ISBN |
9780826347312 electronic book |
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0826347312 electronic book |
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9780826347299 |
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0826347290 |
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0826347304 |
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9780826347305 |
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