Tobacco and Shamanism in South America

By Johannes Wilbert

Book Overview

Anthropologist Johannes Wilbert here presents a comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies. Surveying nearly three hundred societies, Wilbert has found that South American Indians employ numerous means of nicotine application and that a close functional relationship exists between tobacco and shamanism. His book is "a superb reference and a pleasure to read."--Robert Byck, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300057903
• ISBN13: 9780300057904
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"