The Cosmic Serpent (38 page)

p. 97. “‘
Banisteriopsis caapi,
a liana that tends to grow in charming double helices ...'” From Schultes and Raffauf (1992), p. 26. Reprinted with permission from Synergetic Press, Oracle, Arizona.

p. 102. “‘The cosmic serpent, provider of attributes.'” From R. T. R. Clark (1959), p. 52. Reprinted with permission from Thames and Hudson Ltd.

p. 105. “A magnified section of a leaf . . .” From a photo by Alfred Pasieka. Reprinted with the photographer's permission.

p. 111. “‘Cosmovision.'” From A. Gebhart-Sayer (1987), p. 26. Reprinted with the author's kind permission.

p. 113. “Detail from Pablo Amaringo's painting ‘Pregnant by an Anaconda.'” From Luna and Amaringo (1991), p. 111. Reprinted with the authors' kind permission.

INDEX

Amaringo, Pablo

Anaconda

Ancon, Laureano

Ant

Artaud, Antonin

Avíreri

Axis of the world

Ayahuasca

Bergson, Henri

Beveridge, W. I. B.

Biophoton

Bourdieu, Pierre

Brain

Calladine, Chris

Campbell, Joseph

Castaneda, Carlos

Chaumeil, Jean-Pierre

Chuang-Tzu

Chucano Santos, José

Consciousness

Crick, Francis

Curare

Darwin, Charles

Descartes, René

Devereux, George

Dimethyltryptamine

DNA

Drew, Horace

Education, bilingual

Einstein, Albert

Eliade, Mircea

Frank-Kamenetskii, Maxim

Franklin, Rosalind

Gaia

Gebhart-Sayer, Angelika

Geertz, Clifford

Gomez, Ruperto

Gurvich, Alexander

Harner, Michael

Heraclitus

Ho, Mae-Wan

Holmes, Sherlock

Huxley, Francis

Jacob, François

Jakobson, Roman

“Junk” DNA

Kekulé, August

Koch-Grünberg, Theodor

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste

Langaney, André

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Linnaeus, Carl von

LSD

Luisi, Pier Luigi

Luna, Luis Eduardo

Malinowski, Bronislaw

Maninkari

Margulis, Lynn

Mayr, Ernst

Métraux, Alfred

Monod, Jacques

Mundkur, Balaji

Nash, J. Madeleine

Nicotine

Perez Shuma, Carlos

Piaget, Jean

Pollack, Robert

Popp, Fritz-Albert

Popper, Karl

Quartz

Radio waves

Receptor

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo

Sagan, Dorion

Schultes, Richard E.

Scott, Alwyn

Serotonin

Serpent

Shapiro, James

Shapiro, Robert

Shingari, Abelardo

Snake

Stereogram

Strassman, Rick

Sullivan, Lawrence

Tangoa, Luis

Television

Tobacco

Townsley, Graham

Twins

Twisted language

Tylor, Edward

Visual system

Wallace, Alfred

Watson, James

Weiss, Gerald

Wesson, Robert

Wilbert, Johannes

Wills, Christopher

Yahweh

Zeus

BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEX

Abelin (1993)

Alberts et al. (1990)

Artaud (1979)

Atkinson (1992)

Atlan and Koppel (1990)

Baer (1992)

Balick et al. (1996)

Barker et al. (1981)

Bass (1994)

Baudoin (1918)

Bayard (1987)

Beach et al. (1994)

Beauclerk et al. (1988)

Bellier (1986)

Beveridge (1950)

Bisset (1989)

Blocker and Salem (1994)

Blubaugh and Linegar (1948)

Boulnois (1939)

Bourdieu (1977) (1980) (1990)

Bourguignon (1979)

Broad (1994)

Browman and Schwarz (1979)

Brown (1988)

Buchillet (1982)

Burnand (1991)

Burroughs and Ginsberg (1963)

Butler (1996)

Cairns-Smith (1983)

Calladine and Drew (1992)

Campbell (1959) (1964) (1968)

Chandebois (1993)

Changeux (1983) (1993)

Chapela et al. (1994)

Chaumeil (1982) (1983) (1992) (1993)

Chevalier (1982)

Chevalier and Gheerbrant (1982)

Christensen and Narby (1992)

Chuang-Tzu (1968) (1981)

Chwirot (1992)

Cimino et al. (1992)

Clark (1959)

Clery (1995)

Cohen et al. (1967)

Colchester (1982)

Couturier et al. (1990)

Crick (1958) (1966) (1981) (1994)

Culotta and Koshland (1994)

Darwin (1871)

Davis, S. (1993)

Davis, W. (1986) (1996)

Dawkins (1976) (1982) (1986)

de Duve (1984)

Delaby (1976)

Deliganis et al. (1991)

Delsemme (1994)

De Mille (1980)

Deneris et al. (1991)

de Rosnay (1966)

Descola (1996)

Devereux (1956)

Diószegi (1974)

Dishotsky et al. (1971)

Dobkin de Rios (1972) (1973) (1974)

Dobkin de Rios and Katz (1975)

Drummond (1981)

Dubochet (1993)

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Eliade (1949) (1951) (1964) (1972)

Elick (1969)

Elisabetsky (1991)

Evans (1993)

Evinger et al. (1994)

Farin et al. (1990)

Farnsworth (1988)

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Federal Office of Public Health (1994)

Flam (1994)

Foucault (1961)

Frank-Kamenetskii (1993)

Frederickson and Onstott (1996)

Freedman (1994)

Friedlander (1992)

Furst (1994)

Galle et al. (1991)

Gardiner (1950)

Garza (1990)

Gasché (1989-1990) (1993)

Gebhart-Sayer (1986) (1987)

Geertz (1966)

Glennon et al. (1984)

Goodsell (1993)

Goodwin (1994)

Graves (1955)

Grinspoon and Bakalar (1979)

Gu (1992)

Guénon (1962)

Gurvich (1992)

Halifax (1979)

Hall et al. (1996)

Hamayon (1978) (1982) (1990)

Hare (1973)

Harner (1968) (1973) (1980)

Hayes (1996)

Heald et al. (1996)

Hill (1992)

Hilts (1996)

Hinkle et al. (1994)

Ho and Popp (1993)

Hoffer and Osmond (1967)

Hofmann (1983)

Holder and McMahon (1996)

Hölldobler and Wilson (1990)

Hoppál (1987)

Horgan (1994)

Huffman (1995)

Hultkranz (1978)

Hunt (1996)

Huxley (1974)

Hyams (1996)

Illius (1992)

Iversen and Iversen (1981)

Jacob (1974)

Jacq (1993) (1994)

Jakobson (1973)

Johnson (1994)

Jones (1993)

Judson (1992)

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Kahn (1979)

Kaplan et al. (1974)

Kato and Jarvik (1969)

Kato et al. (1970)

Kauffman (1996)

Kensinger (1973)

Keup (1970)

King (1991)

Klaasen and Wong (1993)

Kloppenberg (1991)

Koch-Grünberg (1917)

Koistinaho (1993)

Kracke (1992)

Krajick (1997)

Kräupl Taylor (1981)

Kuper (1988)

La Barre (1976)

Lamb (1971) (1985)

Langaney (1997)

Laszlo (1997)

Leary (1966)

Lee and Shlain (1985)

Lee et al. (1996)

Lévi-Strauss (1949a) (1949b) (1950) (1963a) (1963b) (1991a) (1991b)

Lewis, D. (1973)

Lewis, I. (1971)

Lewis, J., et al. (1987)

Lewontin (1992)

Li (1992)

Lipkin (1994)

Lot-Falck (1963) (1973)

Luisi (1993)

Luna (1984) (1986) (1992)

Luna and Amaringo (1991)

Mabit (1988)

Mabit et al. (1992)

McGinn (1994)

McKenna, T. (1988) (1991) (1993)

McKenna, Luna, and Towers (1986)

McKenna and McKenna (1975)

McKenna and Peroutka (1990)

McKenna, Towers, and Abbott (1984)

McKenna et al. (1989)

Maier (1965)

Malinowski (1922)

Mann (1992)

Margulis and Sagan (1986) (1989)

Martell (1982)

Mayr (1982) (1983) (1988)

Mei (1992)

Métraux (1946) (1967)

Mitchell et al. (1993)

Mitriani (1982)

Mojzsis et al. (1996)

Monod (1971)

Moore (1996)

Moorhead and Kaplan (1967)

Morowitz (1985)

Mullis (1994)

Mundkur (1983)

Murphy et al. (1993)

Mushegian and Koonin (1996)

Naranjo (1986)

Narby (1986) (1989) (1990)

Nash (1995)

Niggli (1992)

Noll (1983)

Nowak (1994)

Orgel and Crick (1980)

Pang et al. (1993)

Pennisi (1994)

Penrose (1994)

Perrin (1992a) (1992b)

Perry (1983)

Piaget (1975)

Pierce and Peroutka (1989)

Pitt et al. (1994)

Pollack (1994) (1997)

Popp (1986) (1992a) (1992b)

Popp, Gu, and Li (1994)

Popper (1974)

Posey (1990) (1991) (1994)

Pratt (1986)

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Rattemeyer et al. (1981)

Reichel-Dolmatoff (1971) (1972) (1975) (1978) (1979) (1981) (1987)

Reisse (1988)

Renard-Casevitz (1993)

Renck (1989)

Rivier and Lindgren (1972)

Roe (1982)

Rosaldo (1980) (1989)

Rosenberg et al. (1963)

Rouget (1980)

Rouhi (1997)

Sagan and editors (1993)

Saïd (1978)

Sai-Halasz et al. (1958)

Sankarapandi (1994)

Schiefelbein (1986)

Schultes (1972)

Schultes and Hofmann (1979) (1980)

Schultes and Raffauf (1990) (1992)

Schultes and von Reis (1995)

Schützenberger (1996)

Shanon (1978)

Shapiro, J. (1996)

Shapiro, R. (1986) (1994a) (1994b)

Shulgin (1992)

Siegel and Jarvik (1975)

Silverman (1967)

Siskind (1973)

Slade (1976)

Slade and Bentall (1988)

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Smith, R. (1982)

Smythies (1970)

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Smythies et al. (1979)

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Strassman (1991)

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Strassman et al. (1994)

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Thuillier (1986)

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Trémolières (1994)

Trinh (1989)

Tsing (1993)

Tylor (1866)

Van de Kar (1991)

Van Gennep (1903)

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Varese (1973)

Wade (1995a) (1995b) (1995c) (1997a) (1997b) (1997c)

Wagner (1969)

Wan et al. (1991)

Watson (1968)

Watson et al. (1987)- 20

Weiss (1969) (1973)

Wesson (1991)

Whitten (1976)

Wilbert (1972) (1987) (1996)

Wills (1989) (1991)

Wilson (1984) (1990) (1992)

Wright (1992)

Yielding and Sterglanz (1968)

Yoon (1995)

Zhang and Nicklas (1996)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeremy Narby grew up in Canada and Switzerland, studied history at the University of Canterbury, and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University. For two years he lived in the Peruvian Amazon studying the Ashaninca Indians and their methods of using the forest's resources. Since 1989 Narby has worked for Nouvelle Planète, a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland. He is married and now has three children.