Johannes Wilbert

Anthropologist Johannes Wilbert here presents a comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies. Surveying nearly three hundred societies, Wilbert has found that South American Indians employ numerous means of nicotine application and that a close functional relationship exists between tobacco and shamanism. His book is "a superb reference and a pleasure to read."—Robert Byck, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

"In my opinion this project of publications devoted to folk literature of South America is of paramount importance. South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par with the great masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity and of the Near and Far East. At the present time this material is scattered in numerous publications most of which are not easy to locate. It would do a great service to scholars all over the world and to the general public to have them collected in a series of volumes."--Claude Levi-Strauss "It is time we had a set of volumes containing good source material for those who wish to study South American indigenous narratives; I am also quite certain that many nonspecialists would be interested in original documents of this kind."--Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

Folk Literature of the Yanomami Indians (Ucla Latin American Studies) [Oct 01, 1990] Wilbert, Johannes and Simoneau, Karin

"Collection includes some of the author's most important essays written during 25 years of research among the Warao of the Orinoco Delta. Focus is on religious life, for which author provides in-depth comparative and historical interpretations of the symbolic values the Warao bestow on environmental, material, and social processes, revealing how Warao experience of life and the material conditions of existence are endowed with religious and mystical significance. This approach, outside of studies of the Guarani, has rarely been explored in South American ethnology"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Book by Wilbert, Johannes

paperback, 112 pages, great b/w roll-out illustrations taken from Ancient Ecuadorian spindle whorls

Caracas 1964 1st Editorial Sucre. Monografias 10. Tribal people living in eastern Brazil. In Spanish. Octavo, 303pp., wraps. VG.

The Thread of Life: Symbolism of Miniature Art from Ecuador + A Further Exploration of the Rowe Chavin Seriation and its Implications for North Central Coast Chronology + A Man and a Feline in Mochica ArtThis volume contains three monographs from the series of Collected Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archeology. Johannes Wilbert looks at the use and decoration of spindles, focusing on those from Ecuador. Peter Roe examines the Chavin seriations, with numerous illustrations and a pullout chart, and Elizabeth Benson considers the motif of felines and men in Mochica art.

For the Warao of the Venezuelan Orinoco Delta, survival$ under the extreme ecological conditions of the deltaic marshland requ$ exceptional adaptive agility. Johannes Wilbert presents the Warao's response to the climatological challenge of their homeland, deftly weaving the strands of geographic, atmospheric, biological, and cultu$ lore and learning into a rich tapestry of environmental wisdom. This volume, in the Religions of the World series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Center for the Study of Worl$ Religions.

"Final volume of a series on folk literature of lowland South American indigenous peoples. Provides a list of contributors, a synthesis of narrative content, themes, and an extensive motif index. Important contribution to the study of folk narrative. Useful for comparative research"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

1323p hardback with dustjacket, an excellent copy, new, unused, without fault

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