Research Catalog

Title

Hallucinogens and culture / Peter T. Furst.

Author

Furst, Peter T.

Publication

San Francisco : Chandler & Sharp, c1976.

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Description

xii, 194 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book is an introduction to some of the hallucinogenic drugs in their cultural and historical context, stressing their important role in religion, ritual, magic and curing".--BOOKJACKET.

Series Statement

Chandler & Sharp series in cross-cultural themes

Subject

• Hallucinogenic drugs
• Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Hallucinogens
• Plants

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 174-182.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Idolatry, hallucinogens, and cultural survival -- Tobacco: proper food for the gods -- Cannabis (spp) and nutmeg derivatives -- Ibogaine and the vine of souls: from tropical forest ritual to psychotherapy -- Hallucinogens and archetypes -- LSD and the sacred morning glories of Indian Mexico -- The sacred mushrooms: rediscovery in Mexico -- The fly-agaric: mushroom of immortality -- R. Gordon Wasson and the identification of the divine Soma -- The diabolic root -- To find our life: peyote hunt of the huichols of Mexico -- Datura: a hallucinogen that can kill -- Hallucinogenic snuffs and animal symbolism -- The toad as earth mother: a problem in symbolism and psychopharmacology -- Hallucinogens and the sacred deer.

ISBN

0883165171 :

LCCN

^^^75025442^

OCLC

• 2120984
• SCSB-13389252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library