"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.
- ISBN10 0670831379
- ISBN13 9780670831371
- Publish Date 26 August 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English