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This book surveys the use of mind-altering plants in eleven societies in the Americas, Asia, Australia and New Guinea, ranging from the hunter-gatherers to complex ancient civilizations such as the Inca, the Moche, and the Maya. Those interested in rituals and religions of traditional societies and folk medicine will find a great deal of information in this concise, illustrated volume. Several themes emerge from de Rios's cross-cultural examination of sacred plants. She argues convincingly that plant hallucinogens, which have been used from time immemorial, influenced human evolution. She discusses religious beliefs, including those of shamanism, which may have been influenced by the mind-altering properties of particular plants. She also focuses on the ways in which hallucinogens have influenced ethical and moral systems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Consider these related titles of interest also available from Waveland Press: de Rios, Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon (ISBN 0881330930); Furst, Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens (ISBN 0881334774); and Knipe, Culture, Society, and Drugs: The Social Science Approach to Drug Use (ISBN 0881338419). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Prism Press (December 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 185327061X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853270611
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting look at topic, March 29, 2009
By Nancy A. Fox (West Covina, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This is an interesting look at the use of hallucinogens in traditional societies, showing similar themes between a number of cultures widely separated by distance and time. This book is an early book on this topic, and it does provoke a lot of thought and raises further questions to be explored. I did find it quite interesting, and the artwork provided was well chosen.

Dr. de Rios studied hallucinogen use in healing rituals for a few different cultures in South America. She noticed certain patterns that kept recurring in these very different societies, and when she read studies of other cultures in New Guinea, Africa, and North America, she realized that many of these themes occurred in all of the cultures using hallucinogenic plant products. This is quite well-illustrated through her research and documentation.

However, I found her trying to extract evidence for pre-historic usage of hallucinogens a little less compelling. While, quite interesting and certainly worth pursuing, I think that her hypotheses regarding the archaeological cultures of the Chimu, Nazca, Aztec, Maya need a little more evidence. She primarily extracts from the artwork of these cultures that there was ritualized usage of hallucinogens used by an elite priesthood. While there does seem to be some corroboration in the Spanish chronicles of the early contacts with the Aztec and Inca, a lot has to be read between the lines since this was not the Spaniard's primary interest.

Dr. de Rios outlined her field research methods for studying the Urban Amazonian Mestizos in the opening of the chapter about this culture. However, since we did not have this information for any of the other cultures outlined, it actually raised more questions for me. I wanted to know how the other researchers that were being summarized did their research. Finally since she uses the artwork from the archaeological cultures to prove hallucinogenic plant usage, I was disappointed that there was no mention of any artwork from the Mestizos that showed their usage of hallucinogens. I wondered if that meant that they didn't produce artwork on this subject, or if since she has proof that that do use the hallucinogens for healing rituals, Dr. de Rios felt it was unnecessary to provide this information.
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