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"In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism and traditional Hispanic medicine, and have incorporated much of the religious tradition of the Amazon, especially its shamanism, sorcery, healing, and the use of potent plant hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. Singing to the Plants sets forth just what this shamanism is about - what happens at an ayahuasca healing ceremony, how the apprentice shaman forms a spiritual relationship with the healing plant spirits, how sorcerers inflict the harm that the shaman heals, and the ways that plants are used in healing, love magic, and sorcery."--Jacket.

Shamanism --- Human-plant relationships --- Plants --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany --- Man and plants --- Man-plant relationships --- Plant-human relationships --- Plant-man relationships --- Plants and man --- Relationships, Human-plant --- Human beings --- Botany, Economic --- Ethnobotany --- Synanthropic plants --- Religions --- Religious aspects. --- Ayahuasca ceremony --- Healing --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnobiology --- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience --- Religious aspects --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Maynas Region (Peru) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs.. --- Maynas (Peru) --- Social life and customs. --- Mainas (Peru) --- healing --- shamanism --- Mestizo Shamanism --- the Upper Amazon --- shamanic healing --- ayahuasca