Re: ethnomycology

allen lutins (alleycat@spectra.net)
Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:07:31 GMT

geroldf@sdd.hp.com (Gerold Firl) wrote:

>In article <0000204c+0000250f@msn.com>, Kirsten_Houghton@msn.com (Kirsten Houghton) writes:
>|> does anybody know of any publications about the use of fungi by
>|> indigenous people (particularly Amazonian Indians) medicinal,
>|> nutritional, hallucinogenic etc....any info that could lead somewhere?

Try the following:

Munn, Henry
1973 The Mushrooms of Language. In _Hallucinogens_and_
_Shamanism_ (ed. M.J. Harner). Oxford Univ. Press,
New York, pp. 86-122.

Schleiffer, Hedwig
1973 _Sacred_Narcotic_Plants_of_the_New_World_Indians_
Hafner Press, NY.

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