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General introduction: 'A little glass of rum' / David L. Browman and Ronald A. Schwarz -- Magico-religious use of tobacco among South American Indians / Johannes Wilbert -- Coca and popular medicine in Peru: an historical analysis of attitudes / Joseph A. Gagliano -- Was espingo (ispincu) of psychotropic and intoxicating importance for the shamans in Peru? / S. Henry Wassen -- Yage among the Siona: cultural patterns in visions / E. Jean Langdon -- Social and medical aspects of the use of cannabis in Brazil / Alvaro Rubim de Pinho -- Shamanism among the Ava-Chiripa / Miguel Alberto Bartolome -- Effect of rural-urban migration on beliefs and attitudes toward disease and medicine in southern Peru / A. Quintanilla -- Learning of psychodynamics, history, and diagnosis management therapy by a Kali cult indigenous healer in Guiana / Philip Singer, Enrique Araneta, and Jamsie Naidoo -- Effects of behavioral and ecological variations upon the incidence of parasitic disease among la Gente of Concepcion, Peru / John M. McDaniel, H. William Harris, Jr., and Solomon H. Katz -- Body and spirit among the Sanuma (Yanoama) of North Brazil / Kenneth I. Taylor -- A Peruvian curandero's seance: power and balance / Douglas Sharon -- Creative process in ritual art: Piaroa Indians, Venezuela / Lajos Boglar -- Not in ourselves, but in our stars / Jean-Paul Dumont