Tobacco and Shamanism in South America

Tobacco and Shamanism in South America

Author: Johannes Wilbert

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 0300057903

Category: Body, Mind & Spirit

Page: 324

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An ethnography of magic-religious, medicinal and recreational tobacco use among nearly 300 native South American societies. Wilbert found that South American Indians use tobacco in many ways and that a close functional relation exists between tobacco and shamanism.