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  • Psychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas

    History, Traditions, and Indigenous Voices

    Edited by Dr Henrique Fernandes Antunes, Nidia Olvera Hernández PhD, Clancy Cavnar PhD, Beatriz Caiuby Labate PHD ...
    An essential new collection that explores the cultural, medicinal, and spiritual traditions of marijuana, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and other psychedelics—informed by both Western and Indigenous knowledgePsychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas is a collection of 23 psychedelic-specific articles, written by historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and those from other fields in the humanities. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

    Edited by Ilana Johnson, David Pacifico, Robyn E. Cutright ...
    Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often ... Read more

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  • The Hold Life Has

    Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

    by Catherine J. Allen ...
    This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Plant Teachers

    Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge

    by Jeremy Narby ...
    A trailblazing anthropologist and an indigenous Amazonian healer explore the convergence of science and shamanism“The dose makes the poison,” says an old adage, reminding us that substances have the potential to heal or to harm, depending on their use. Although Western medicine treats tobacco as a harmful addictive drug, it is considered medicinal by indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest. In ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Ayahuasca Reader

    Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine

    by Luis Eduardo Luna, Steven F. White ...
    Join dozens of adventurers, anthropologists, artists, shamans, scientists and poets on a journey to remote regions of the Amazon and to the far reaches of the human psyche. The new, expanded edition of Ayahuasca Reader shares many distinct voices of the global ayahuasca movement: researchers conducting clinical studies on its healing effects, painters depicting the ineffable experience with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Red Medicine

    Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing

    by Patrisia Gonzales ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Growing Up in a Culture of Respect

    Child Rearing in Highland Peru

    by Inge Bolin ...
    Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious. They exhibit superior social and cognitive skills and maintain an attitude of respect for all life as they progress smoothly from childhood to adulthood without a troubled adolescence. What makes such child-rearing success even more ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Shamans of the Foye Tree

    Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche

    by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo ...
    Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Singing to the Plants

    A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon

    by Stephan V, Beyer ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ...
    “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Death, Mourning, and Burial

    A Cross-Cultural Reader

    Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben ...
    The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalismFew subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying. This expanded second edition of the internationally bestselling Death, Mourning, and Burial offers cross-cultural readings that ... Read more

    $57.00 USD

  • Thunder Shaman

    Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia

    by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo ...
    As a “wild,” drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi’s spirit traveled to other historical times and places, gaining the power and knowledge to conduct spiritual warfare against her community’s enemies, including forestry companies and settlers. As a “civilized” shaman, Francisca narrated the Mapuche people’s attachment to their local sacred landscapes, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD