Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

Facet Tags

Traditional & Indigenous
Americas (non-U.S.)
Alternative & Fringe Medicine
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Professions & Education

Subjects

ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology BOTANY › Ethnobotany Latin American Medicine › History of Latin American Medicine Magic & Superstition in Medicine PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Tobacco PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › History of Psychopharmacology TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine › Shamanism / Neoshamanism

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#9017
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/11196
External URL	tobacco-and-shamanism-in-south-america-

Geographic Context

Publication place: New Haven, CT