A Selected Bibliography on the Machiguenga, the Manu and the Ethnobotany of the Amazon

Baer, G.

1992 "The one who intoxicates himself with tobacco". In: J. Matteson-Langdon and G. Baer, eds. Portals of Power: Shamanism in South America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Berlin, B.

1984 "Contributions of Native American collectors to the ethnobotany of the neotropics". Language in Advances in Economic Botany 1:24-33.

Duke, J.A. and R. Vasquez

1994 Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.

Hill, K. and H. Kaplan

1990 "The Yora of Peru". AnthroQuest 41:1-9.

Johnson, A.

1983 "Machiguenga gardens". In: R. Hames and W. Vickers, eds. Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians. New York: Academic Press, 29-63.

1989 "How the Machiguenga manage resources: Conservation or exploitation of nature?". In: D. Posey and W. Balee , ed. Resource Management in Amazonia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies. New York: New York Botanical Gardens (Advances in Economic Botany, Vol. 7).

Kensinger, K.M.

1974 "Cashinahua medicine and medicine men". In: P. Lyon, ed. Native South Americans: Ethnology of the Least Known Continent. Boston: Little, Brown, 283-289.

Lewis, W.

1978 Medical Botany. St. Louis: Washington University Press.

MacQuarrie, K.

1992 Peru's Amazonian Eden: Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve/El Paraíso Amazónico del Perú: Manu, Parque Nacional y Reserva de la Biosfera. Barcelona: Francis O. Patthey e hijos.

Plotkin, M.J.

1988 "The outlook for new agricultural and industrial products from the tropics". In: E.O. Wilson and F.M. Peter, eds. Biodiversity. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 106-116.

Plowman, T., A . Leuchtmann, C. Blaney and E.K. Clay

1990 "Significance of the fungus Balansia cyperi infecting medicinal species of Cyperus (Cyperaceae) from Amazonia". Economic Botany 44(4):452-462.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, G.

1971 Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rosengren, D.

1987 In the Eyes of the Beholder : Leadership and the Social Construction of Power and Dominance among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon. Goteborg: Goteborgs Etnografiska Museum.

Schultes, R.E.

1990 The Healing Forest : Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazon. Portland, Oregon: Dioscorides Press.

Shepard, G. Jr.

(in press) "From shamans' breath: Biodiversity in Machiguenga folklore." In D. Posey, ed., The Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity, UNEP Global Biodiversity Assessment, Vol 2. Cambridge University Press, UK.

(in press) "Gift of the Harpy Eagle: Machiguenga Hunting Medicines," Journal of the South American Explorers' Club, upcoming March '98 issue.

ms. Of Bitter Herbs and Sweet: Botany, Medicine and History in Two Amazonian Societies. Ph.D. Dissertation in preparation, Dept. Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley

Snell, B.

1978 Machiguenga: Fonologia y Vocabulario Breve. Yarinacocha, Pucallpa, Peru: Instituto Linguistico de Verano.

Snell, W W.

1964 Kinship Relations in Machiguenga [M.A. thesis]. The Hartford Seminary Foundation.

Soejarto, S.E. and N.R. Farnsworth

1989 "Tropical rain forests: Potential source of new drugs?". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 32(2):244-56.

Stovall, M. and E.K. Clay

1991 "Fungitoxic effects of Balansia cyperi". Mycologia 83(3):288-295.

Strongin, J.

1982 Machiguenga, Medicine, and Missionaries: The Introduction of Western Health Aids among a Native Population of Southeastern Peru [Ph.D. dissertation]. Dept. Anthropology, Columbia University.

Tournon, J.

1984 "Investigaciones sobre las plantas medicinales de los Shipibo-Conibo del Ucayali". Amazonia Peruana 5(10):91-118.

Wilbert, Johannes

1987 Tobacco and Shamanism in South America. New Haven: Yale University Press.