Flesh of the Gods: Ritual Use of Hallucinogens

Furst, Peter T

ISBN 10: 0045730091 / ISBN 13: 9780045730094

Published by Allen & Unwin, United Kingdom, 1972

About this Item

hardback, octavo, a tightly bound copy with an unmarked text but with foxing to the fore-edge and thus good only. the dust jacket is price clipped and has foxing to the return flaps, xvi + 304pp. Uncommon.

Seller Inventory # 280174

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flesh of the Gods: Ritual Use of Hallucinogens
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0045730091
• ISBN 13: 9780045730094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

The essays in this book demonstrate that hallucinogenic substances have potentials for good and evil, and which is realized depends on who uses them and in what contexts, for what purposes, and under what kinds of control as it does on the chemical properties of the hallucinogen. Chapters include "An Overview of Hallucinogens in the Western Hemisphere", "Tobacco and Shamanistic Ecstasy Among the Warao Indians of Venezuela", "The Cultural context of an Aboriginal Hallucinogen: Banisteriopsus Caapi", "The San Pedro Cactus in Peruvian Folk Healing", "To Find Our Life: Peyote Among the Huichol Indians of Mexico", "The Divine Mushroom of Immortality", "What Was the Soma of the Aryans?", "Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa L.: A Historical-Ethnographic Survey", "Tabernanthe Iboga: Naracotic Ecstasis and the Work of the Ancestors", and "Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion"

From the Publisher

Title of interest from Waveland Press: de Rios, Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon (ISBN 9780881330939).