Singing to the plants

a guide to mestizo shamanism in the upper Amazon

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21st century
Language: English

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"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 Amazon, especially its shamanism, sorcery, healing, and the use of potent plant hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. Singing to the Plants sets forth just what this shamanism is about - what happens at an ayahuasca healing ceremony, how the apprentice shaman forms a spiritual relationship with the healing plant spirits, how sorcerers inflict the harm that the shaman heals, and the ways that plants are used in healing, love magic, and sorcery."--BOOK JACKET.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Psychic healing, auras, and subtle energy, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Shamanism and spirit practice.

Ritual magic and grimoires
Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description.
- “Magic”· in description
Psychic healing, auras, and subtle energy
Retained metadata contains “Mental healing” in the subject metadata.
- “Mental healing”· in subject
Shamanism and spirit practice
Controlled discovery queries from wellcome matched “shamanism”. Retained metadata contains “Shamanism” in the subtitle, “Shamanism” in the description, “Shamanism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).
- “shamanism”· via Wellcome Collection
- “Shamanism”· in subtitle
- “Shamanism”· in description
- “Shamanism”· in subject
- “Shamanism”· in edition subtitle

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
a guide to mestizo shamanism in the upper Amazon Wellcome Collection bibliographic record xiii, 530 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm	2009	University of New Mexico Press	English	9780826347299 0826347290	Catalog record	Wellcome Collection (opens in a new tab)