General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- General Introduction: "A Little Glass of Rum" -- PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS -- Introduction -- Magico-Religious Use of Tobacco Among South American Indians -- Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes -- Was Espingo (Ispincu) of Psychotropic and Intoxicating Importance for the Shamans in Peru? -- Yagé Among the Siona: Cultural Patterns in Visions -- PART TWO: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- Introduction -- Social and Medical Aspects of the Use of Cannabis in Brazil -- Shamanism Among the Avá-Chiripá -- Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru -- Learning of Psychodynamics, History, and Diagnosis Management Therapy by a Kali Cult Indigenous Healer in Guiana -- Effects of Behavioral and Ecological Variations upon the Incidence of Parasitic Disease Among la Gente of Conceptión, Peru -- PART THREE: SPIRITS, STRUCTURES, AND STARS -- Introduction -- Body and Spirit Among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil -- A Peruvian Curandero's Séance: Power and Balance -- Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, Venezuela -- Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.