Tales of a shaman's apprentice

Description:

"Fascinating and highly readable account of an ethnobotanist's research on medicinal plants and hallucinogens among the Trio and Oyana of Suriname/Brazil and the Yanomamo of Venezuela. In view of the declining importance of shamanism and loss of plant knowledge due to rapid cultural change, author encourages research promoting the patenting of indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants, which may also serve as an important revenue source for indigenous-based cultural survival programs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

subjects: Description and travel,  Ethnobotany,  Indians of South America,  Medicine,  South American Indians,  Ethnobotanik,  Traditional Medicine,  Medicinal Plants,  Schamane,  Ethnomedizin,  Rain forest plants,  Botany, medical,  Rain forests,  Medicine, research,  Botany,  Plotkin, mark j,  Plants, medicinal,  Medicine, traditional,  Indians, south american,  Indians of south america--ethnobotany,  Indians of south america--ethnobotany--amazon river region,  Indians of south america--medicine,  Indians of south america--medicine--amazon river region,  Hallucinogenic plants,  Hallucinogenic plants--south america,  F2230.1.b7 p56 1993,  1994 a-497,  F 2230.1.b7 p729t 1993,  581.6/34/09811

People: Mark J. Plotkin

Places: Amazon River Region