Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History

Ten years of fieldwork on ayahuasca use, from Amazonian curanderos to urban churches and addiction treatment centres. Combines medical anthropology with cognitive science and is honest about the tensions between them.

Ismael Eduardo Apud Pelaez

A wide survey of South American peoples organised around magic and religion: taboos, initiation, the medicine man, hunting ritual and the treatment of the dead. Built on the author own years in the Amazon and the Andes.

Rafael Karsten

Notes from months spent among the peoples of the Putumayo region, covering the medicine man, dance ceremonies, plant knowledge and daily life. Illustrated with early photographs of the communities described.

Thomas Whiffen

A naturalist account of the peoples of the Guiana interior, with a long section on the peaiman, the spirit world and the practice of healing. Careful observation of plants, tools and belief side by side.

Everard F. im Thurn