"For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now W…
"For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now W…
An anthropologist finds herself becoming totally immersed in the primitive Indian culture of the Iticoteri tribe who have adopted her.
Shamans and their practices have fascinated Western civilization since publication of the earliest ethnographies. Yet, alien to a positivistic worldview and characterized by hysteria, ecstasy, and magic, shamanism has continued to be classified as vestigial or archaic long after…
Shamans and their practices have fascinated Western civilization since publication of the earliest ethnographies. Yet, alien to a positivistic worldview and characterized by hysteria, ecstasy, and magic, shamanism has continued to be classified as vestigial or archaic long after…
Estudio que documenta la percepción de la población nativa del río Camisea frente al proyecto de explotación gasífera Camisea, el riesgo en su salud ambiental y el ejercicio de sus derechos humanos. Se demuestra que el Estado peruano no ha cumplido con respetar la intangibilidad…
Estudio que documenta la percepción de la población nativa del río Camisea frente al proyecto de explotación gasífera Camisea, el riesgo en su salud ambiental y el ejercicio de sus derechos humanos. Se demuestra que el Estado peruano no ha cumplido con respetar la intangibilidad…
For four hundred years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violen…
