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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice : An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest
Author: Mark J. Plotkin
Mark Plotkin, chief ethnobotanist for Conservation International, has spent much of the last decade in the rain forests tracking the shamans whose knowledge of the curative powers of plants may hold the cure for some of today's devastating diseases. This is the fascinating account of his apprenticeships to these powerful wise men, an anthrop...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140129915
ISBN-10: 014012991X
Publication Date: 8/1/1994
Pages: 328
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Publisher: Penguin
Book Type: Paperback
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Excellent book and not really at all out of date although published in 1993. The struggle to protect indigenous knowledge and habitat is still there. Written as sequential narrative, although one suspects considerably simplified and dramatized to introduce the various teaching points, this makes accounts of ethnobotany easy to swallow without any nauseous after-effects. The writer is really dedicated and obviously an expert in his field of South American medicinal plants and native cures. The book focuses on research among real people in just a few locations in the northern amazonian region, which makes it easy to keep track of the places and players. I was engrossed in this book (and read it while visiting tropical Florida which gave it a bit more reality although that is a very different kind of jungle)


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