The Cosmic Serpent
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: April 5, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780874779646
Subjects: DNA; Popular science; Sociology; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Indians of South America; Science; Shamanism; Science/Mathematics; Peru; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Hallucinogenic drugs; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Drug use
First sentence: The first time an Ashaninca man told me that he had learned the medicinal properties of plants by drinking a hallucinogenic brew, I thought he was joking.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Forest Television
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Anthropologists and Shamans
pagenum: 10; label: 3
title: The Mother of the Mother of Tobacco is a Snake
pagenum: 19; label: 4
title: Enigma in Rio
pagenum: 36; label: 5
title: Defocalizing
pagenum: 44; label: 6
title: Seeing Correspondences
pagenum: 60; label: 7
title: Myth and Molecules
pagenum: 81; label: 8
title: Through the Eyes of an Ant
pagenum: 103; label: 9
title: Receptors and Transmitters
pagenum: 117; label: 10
title: Biology's Blind Spot
pagenum: 132; label: 11
title: "What Took You So Long?"
pagenum: 146; title: Notes
pagenum: 163; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 223; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 247; title: Permissions and Credits
pagenum: 249; title: Index
pagenum: 251; title: Bibliographic Index
pagenum: 253