Médecins et chamanes des Andes
Subtitle: Awankay, l'Esprit-Condor plane, immobile, sur la vallée
By: François Luis-Blanc ; préface de Jean-Pierre Chaumeil.
Series: Recherches & documents. Amériques latines; Recherches & documents.
Publisher: L'Harmattan
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Quechua Indians -- Medicine.; Quechua Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.; Aymara Indians -- Medicine.; Aymara Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.; Shamanism -- Andes Region.; Andes Region -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Travel monograph by French physician describes healing practices of highland Peru.  Details native forms of diagnosis, use of hallucinogenic drugs in curing sessions, and intellectual encounters of Andean and European forms of curing specific illnesses"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-202).