Singing to the Plants

University of New Mexico Press

2009

530 p.

9780826347299

Shamanic Healing. Two healers of the Upper Amazon -- The Ayahuasca ceremony -- Shamanic performance -- Learning the plants -- Sounds -- Phlegm and darts -- Initiation -- Sucking and blowing -- Spirits -- Protection -- Sex -- Harming -- Healing -- Spirit possession -- Magic stones -- Shamanic herbalism -- Plant medicine -- Types of shaman -- Ayahuasca. An introduction to Ayahuasca -- Vomiting -- Questions in the study of Ayahuasca -- Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca experience -- Mechanisms of Ayahuasca hallucinations -- Other psychoactive plants -- Context and Sources. The Upper Amazon culture area -- Being Mestizo -- Beings of earth and water -- Hispanic influences -- Folk Catholicism -- Meeting Modernity. Ayahuasca meets global modernism -- Ayahuasca tourism -- Ayahuasca and the law -- Shamans fight back -- The future -- Appendices: Plants mentioned in the text ; Animals mentioned in the text.

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