Constantino Manuel Torres and David B. Repke bring archaeological and pharmacological expertise together, and this Haworth Herbal Press monograph is their scholarly study of Anadenanthera, the source plant of the yopo and vilca ritual snuffs used across ancient and traditional South American societies. Its strength is combining the archaeology of excavated snuff trays and inhalation tubes with the plant chemistry and ethnographic record of actual use, giving a well-grounded picture of the antiquity and geographic spread of this ritual snuff tradition. Its limit is that it is a specialist ethnobotanical monograph, so a reader wanting broader context on South American shamanic and religious practice beyond this specific plant tradition needs a wider source alongside it.
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Published by Haworth Herbal Press, an academic press for ethnobotany and herbal medicine scholarship, as Torres and Repke's peer reviewed monograph, university-level academic scholarship. NotesMonograph on the yopo and vilca snuffs, combining the archaeology of snuff trays and tubes with chemistry and ethnography. Cited for the antiquity and distribution of ritual snuff use.
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AuthorConstantino Manuel Torres and David B. Repke
PublisherHaworth Herbal Press
Publication Year2006
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (32 claims)
This source backs 32 claims across the atlas. As facts: 26 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Plants, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
Well-attested
26Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
Holds
4Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
General References
2Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
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