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Singing to the Plants - 9780826347299

Un libro in lingua di Beyer Stephan V. edito da Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2009

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Having studied the plant medicine of shamanism practiced by mestizo shamans of the Upper Amazon, the author here introduces a general audience to the spirituality and ritual practices of his teachers, don Roberto Acho Jurama and doña María Luisa Tuesta Flores. His purpose is "to try to understand who they are and what they do, by placing them in a series of overlapping contexts--as healers, as shamans, as dwellers in the spiritual world of the Upper Amazon, and traditional practitioners in a modern world, as innovators, as cultural syncretists, and as individuals." While the text provides a broad view of their syncretic shamanism, a particular focus of the work is on the use, preparation, and meaning of Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drink prepared from plants that is used for both spiritual and medicinal purposes. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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