Hallucinogens and Culture
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Furst, Peter T. Hallucinogens and Culture. Chandler & Sharp Publishers, 1976. Softbound. Book and cover design by Joseph M. Roter. The pharmacological and cultural impacts of tobacco, cannabis, fly agaric mushrooms, morning glory seeds, and datura are just a few of the phenomena that anthropologist Furst explores in this ethnobotanical study. A pioneering documenter of indigenous cultures in the Americas, Furst is also known for working with the Huichol people of southwest and central Mexico in the development of yarn painting, a now commonly commercialized artistic innovation derived in the 1960s from a traditional shamanistic tool called the 'nierika'.
