Vegetalismo

Doctoral dissertation for the doctor's degree in humanities at the Universitat of Stockholm, jun. 1986

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Contenido /

- Preface

- Chapter 1. Introduction

- Chapter 2. Vegetalismo in the peruvian Amazon

- Chapter 3. Shamanic initiation and the plant-teachers

- Chapter 4. The supernatural realm

- Chapter 5. The gifts of the spirits : The magic melodies and the magic phlegm [icarós]

- Chapter 6. Illness and its treatment

- Chapter 7. Ayahuasca sessions and visions

- Conclusions

- Appendix I. Indian tribes that use or used Banisteriopsis based narcotic beverage

- Appendix Ii. Vernacular names given to Banisteriopsis based narcotic beverages

- Appendix III. Musical transcription of magic melodies or icarós