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Beltrán, Antonio et al. (Ed.) International Symposium on the Intellectual Expressions of Prehistoric Man, Art, and Religion (1979: Camonica Valley, Italy) - The intellectual expressions of prehistoric man, art, and religion: acts of the Valcamonica symposium '79 - Published under the direction of Emmanuel Anati; editors Antonio Beltrán [et al.]; editorial assistants Mila Abreu [et al.], Brescia, Italia, Edizioni del Centro - Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici, Milano, Italia. Editoriale Jaca Book Spa, c 1983

BENSON, Elizabeth P., The Mochica - A Culture of Peru, Thames and Hudson, London, 1972

Burger, R.L. "The Sacred Center of Chavín de Huántar", in: The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes.  R.F. Townsend, ed., pp. 265-78, Chicago 1992

CALDERÓN, Eduardo, COWAN, Richard, SHARON, Douglas & SHARON, Kaye F., Eduardo el Curandero. The Words of a Peruvian Healer, North Atlantic Books, Richmond, California, 1982

CALVO, Cesar, The Three Halves of Ino Moxo: Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon, Inner Traditions, 1995, ISBN  0892815191

 

DUKE, James Alan, VASQUEZ, Rodolfo, Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary, CRC Press, 1994 

ISBN  0849336643

 

de la Vega, Garcilaso, The Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, translated by Maria Jolas, Lima 2002

 

 

ELIADE, Mircea, Lo sciamanismo e le tecniche dell'estasi, Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma 1999

 

Evans Schultes, Richard, Where the Gods Reign - Plants and People of the Colombian Amazon, Synergetic Press, London 1988

 

Evans Schultes, Richard, Hofmann Albert, Ratsch, Christian, Plants of the Gods (Revised and Expanded Edition), Inner Traditions International, 2001
ISBN-10: 0892819790
ISBN-13: 9780892819799

 

 

Huarache Mamani, Hernŕn , La profezia della Curandera, Translated by Barbara Cavallero, Edizioni Piemme, Casal Monferrato, 2001 (In Italian, Original Title: Kantu, El Poder de la Mujer, Arequipa 2000).

ISBN 88-384-4991-0.  Available from: www.bol.it/libri/ 

 

 

ILLAPA, Ed., Coca: The Sacred Leaf of the Incas. The Real History, Translated by Stephen Dickinson

 

 

 

JONES, M. David, MOLYNEAUX, Brian L., The Mythology of the Americas, Lorenz Books, London, 2001

 

 

 

Luna, L. Eduardo, Amaringo Pablo, Ayahuasca Visions, The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Berkeley 1999

 

Luna, L. Eduardo (Editor), WHITE, S. F. (Editor), Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine  Synergetic Press, 2000

ISBN-10: 0907791328 

ISBN-13: 978-0907791324

 

Luna, L. Eduardo, "Icaros: Magical Melodies", in Matteson Langdon, E. J. and Baer, G., Portals of Power - Shamanism in South America, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1992

 

Luna, L. Eduardo, Vegetalismo. Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon, Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion 27, Stockholm 1986

 

MARENT, Thomas, Rainforest, Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2006
ISBN-10: 140531530X
ISBN-13: 978-1405315302
 
NARBY, Jeremy, The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998

ISBN: 0575066148

 

 

NARBY, Jeremy, La Serpiente Cosmica. El ADN y Los Origenes del Saber, Lima 1997 ISBN 9972-673-00-673-00-6

 

 

POLIA MECONI, Mario, Il Sangue del Condor - Sciamani delle Ande, I Nagual, Viaggi Sciamanici, Xenia, Milano, 1997 (a)

 

 

POLIA MECONI, Mario, Gli Indios dell'Amazzonia, Xenia, Milano, 1997 (b)

 

 

POLIA MECONI, Mario, La Sangre del Condor, Chamanes de los Andes,  Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú, Lima, 2001 

Polia Meconi, Mario: La Cosmovisión Religiosa Andina en los Documentos Inéditos del Archivio Romano de la Compańia de Jesús (1581-1752), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, Lima 1999

Polia Meconi, Mario: Despierta, remedio, cuenta: adivinos y médicos del Ande, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. PUCP, Lima 1996

POLIA MECONI, Mario, Las lagunas de los encantos. Medicina tradicional andina del Perů septentrional, CEPESER, Piura, 1988

 

POLIA MECONI, Mario, Alcune riflessioni sull'uso delle droghe rituali nello sciamanesimo amerindio, Quaderni di Avalon, vol. 23, 1990: 59-69

 

POLIA MECONI, Mario, L’uso del cactus mescalinico Trichocereus pachanoi nella medicina tradizionale andina, Altrove  #1, 1993: 77-92

 

POLIA MECONI, Mario,  La mesa curanderil y la cosmología andina, Anthropológica, vol. 13, 1995: 23-53

 

POLIA MECONI, Mario & BIANCHI, Antonio, Ethnological evidence and cultural patterns of the use of Trichocereus pachanoi among Peruvian curanderos, Britt. & Rose, Integration, vol. 1, 1991: 65-70

 

Price, Neil, The Archaeology of Shamanism, Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, October 25, 2001  - ISBN 0415252547

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo, The Shaman and The Jaguar, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1975

 

Rodriguez Kembel, Silvia and Rick, W. John, "Building Authority at Chavín de Huántar: Models of Social Organization and Development in the Initial Period and Early Horizon", in Silverman, Elaine (Ed.), Andean Archaeology, Blackwell Publishing 2004

 

SHARON, Douglas, "Eduardo the Healer", Natural History, vol. 81(9), 1972: 32-47

 

SHARON, Douglas, "The San Pedro Cactus in Peruvian Folk Healing", in: P.T. Furst (Ed.), Flesh of the Gods. The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens, Praeger Publ., New York, 1972: 114-135

 

Sharon, Douglas, Wizard of the Four Winds, The Free Press, New York - London, 1978

ISBN-10: 0029285801

ISBN-13: 978-0029285800

SOMBRUN, Corinne, Journal d'une apprentie chamane, Albin Michelle, Paris, 2002

ISBN-10: 2226131744

ISBN-13: 9782226131744

(Available from: Amazon.fr)

 

TELLO, Chavín Cultura Matriz de la Civilización Andina,  Universidad de San Marcos, Lima 1960

 

 

WOLF, Alan, Fred, The Eagle's Quest - A physicist finds scientific truth at the heart if the shamanic world, Simon & Schuster, New York 1991

 

 

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