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BRIGHTMAN, ROBERT A; MEYER, DAVID; MARANO, LOU
On Windigo Psychosis
Current Anthropology; 1983, 24, 1, Feb, 120-121.
Comments are offered on Lou Marano's discussion of the windigo literature (see SA 32:5/84O2852). Robert A. Brightman (University of Wisconsin, Madison) finds excessively categorical Marano's claim that the cannibalism ascribed to windigos is solely an ideological rationalization for homicide, given records of cannibalism among Northern Algonkians. David Meyer (Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon) finds valuable Marano's debunking of the windigo psychosis concept, but calls for attention to variation in windigo beliefs among varied cultures. In Reply, Lou Marano (Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa) questions the validity of Brightman's evidence for the actual occurrence of windigo behavior & examines some additional evidence on windigo beliefs. Both emic & etic analyses appear to be needed.

COLORADO, PAM; COLLINS, DON
Western Scientific Colonialism and the Re-Emergence of Native Science
Practice; 1987, 5, 3, winter, 50-65.
Native American science is described in detail & compared with Western science. Native American science was inaccessible to other ethnic groups who approached Indian culture with nineteenth-century racism or through cultural anthropology. The four dynamics that drive Indian science are feelings, history as a tool, prayer as a medicine, & relations; its goal is reaching a state of balance. European science, it is asserted, should properly be considered one of many conceptual traditions.

Dobkin de Rios, Marlene.
The Influence of Psychotropic Flora and Fauna on Maya Religion.
Current Anthropology 15(2):147-152. (1974)

FORSYTH, DONALD W
The Beginnings of Brazilian Anthropology: Jesuits and Tupinamba Cannibalism
Journal of Anthropological Research; 1983, 39, 2, summer, 147-178.
Jesuit missionaries who lived & worked among the Tupian-speaking Indians of sixteenth-century costal Brazil have provided valuable information on the customs & practices of these Indians. The contributions to Brazilian ethnography of such Jesuits as Nobrega, Anchieta, Cardim, Soares, & others is illustrated by translations from their writings, most of which are unavailable in English. In particular, William Arens's thesis (The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy, New York: Oxford University Press, 1979) that Brazilian Indians really did not practice cannibalism as reported by French & German sources is reexamined. The Jesuit sources strongly support the argument that anthropophagy was an integral part of Tupian cultural practice.

FUCHS, ANDREW
Coca chewing and high-altitude stress: Possible effects of coca alkaloids on erythropoiesis.
Current Anthropology; 1978 Jun Vol 19(2) 277-291
Contends that there is a relationship between the use of coca by Andean Indians and high-altitude hypoxia stress. Where there are exceptions to a strict altitude/coca-chewing correspondence, an explanation which also emphasizes polycythemic stress rather than either cold or hypoxia alone is indicated. It is proposed that the antimuscarinic ingredients in the coca leaf act upon critical areas of the posterior hypothalamus to depress erythropoiesis. By so doing they are antagonists to the hypoxia which stimulates excessive red blood cell production. A strength of this explanation is that some of the symptoms of chronic polycythemia are identical to those conditions which chewers seek to alleviate by their use of coca (fatigue and pain). Further support is derived from the existence of data which indicate that when nutrition and disease are taken into account as influencing factors, coca chewers present lower red blood cell levels than matched controls. More research regarding the effect of long-term coca chewing on erythropoiesis is needed. Review comments and a reply by the author are included.

Hatch, Marion Popenoe.
An Hypothesis on Olmec Astronomy, With Special Reference to the La Venta Site.
Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, No. 13. Berkeley: University of California, Department of Anthropology. (1971)

HYNDMAN,DC:
Ethnobotany of Wopkaimin Pandanus: Significant Papua New Guinea Plant Resource.
Econ Bot 38 3: 287-303 (1984) English (dept of Anthropology & Sociology University of Queensland St.lucia

Kennedy, Alison Bailey.
Ecce Bufo: The Toad in Nature and in Olmec Iconography.
Current Anthropology 23(3):273-290. (1982)

LINDEN, RICK; CURRIE, RAYMOND F; DRIEDGER, LEO
Interpersonal Ties and Alcohol Use among Mennonites
Revue Canadienne de Sociologie et d'Anthropologie / Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; 1985, 22, 4, Nov, 559-573.
The widely different patterns of alcohol use among people of different countries & among different groups within countries make it apparent that cultural factors are important determinants of alcohol use. Research on this relationship suggests that it is the social groups to which an individual belongs that provide the mechanism through which the cultural norms regarding alcohol use influence the individual's behavior. Based on questionnaire data, the effect of interpersonal ties on the drinking behavior of a national sample of Canadian Mennonites (number of cases = 1,208 respondents) is examined, using a theoretical model that combines social control & differential association theories. Drinking was found to be related to the behavioral preferences of reference others. These effects varied with the closeness of the relationship with that particular associate, & with the actor's visibility to each associate.

LYON ML
Order and healing: the concept of order and its importance in the conceptualization of healing.
Med Anthropol. 1990 Aug; 12(3): 249-68
This paper concerns the notion of order and its role in the conceptualization of healing, and therefore its importance to healing itself. It proposes a model of healing in which order is central. The paper begins with an example drawn from Javanese mystical practices which are based upon the concept of the unity of the human and natural orders. The Javanese case provides a metaphor for an expanded notion of order. This prefigures a consideration of the nature of the concept of order in medical anthropology, science, and medicine. The importance of the notion of analogy (and metaphor) in the concept of order and how order may be simultaneously conceptualized in both cognitive and biological domains is also discussed in the paper. The perspective on order and healing developed here goes beyond conventional biomedical categories and provides a basis for the fundamental reconceptualizations necessary for addressing contemporary developments in psychoneuroimmunology, for example.

MOERMAN, DANIEL E
Desmanthus illinoensis
'Research Reports in Ethnobotany: Medicinal Plants of Native America vol.1&2'; University of Michigan of Anthropology, Technical Reports #19; QK99.N7 M64 (1986)
Desmanthus Illinoensis, Fabaceae: PAIUTE EYE MEDICINE. Five seeds placed in eye at night to cure trachoma; washed out in morning. PAWNEE DERMATOLOGICAL AID. Acuan illinoensis. Spider Bean. Decoction of leaves used as a wash to cure the itch.

Peyote Music. David P. McAllester.Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology Number Thirteen. Johnson Reprint Corp. New York. 1971 repring of 1949 original. paperback. [large box 2m]

Rubin, ed.
Cannabis and Culture.
Reviews in Anthropology 4(3):237-250. ()

Wakinyan: Contemporary Teton Dakota Religion. Stephen E. Feraca. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dept. of the Interior. Blackfeet Agency. Museum of the Plains Indian. Studies in Plains Anthropology and History, no. 2. Browning MO. 1963. 78 pages. photocopy velobound in anthology Peyote Religion Among Northern Tribes. [box v2]

WINKELMAN, MICHAEL; BHARATI, AGEHANANDA; BOURGUIGNON, ERIKA; DE RIOS, MARLENE DO
Magic: A Theoretical Reassessment
Current Anthropology; 1982, 23, 1, Feb, 37-44.
A comparison of aspects of magical belief & practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychologists call psi. Similarities are found between magic & parapsychology in: (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical & psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing such phenomena, (3) the basic principles underlying these phenomena, (4) the characteristics of the phenomena likely affected by magical action & psi, & (5) the characteristics of the origin of magic suggested by Bronislaw Malinowski ('Magic, Science, and Religion' in Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays, New York: Doubleday [Anchor], 1954, 17-92) & the characteristics of the basis of psi. These congruences are used to identify aspects of magic likely to be psi-related. Previous theories of magic are integrated in a theory that places psi & other universal psychological phenomena at the basis of magic, & explains the integration of magical, social, cosmological, & religious phenomena as a product of metaphoric predication & analogical thinking. Comments are offered by Agehananda Bharati (Syracuse University, NY), Erika Bourguignon (Ohio State University, 124 West 17th Ave, Columbus), Marlene Dobkin de Rios (California State University, Fullerton), Alan Dundes (University of California, Berkeley), Jule Eisenbud (4634 East 6th Ave, Denver, Colo), Felicitas D. Goodman (Cuyamungue Institute, 114 East Duncan St, Columbus, Ohio), C. R. Hallpike (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario), Ake Hultkrantz (Seglarvagen 7, 181 62 Lidingo, Sweden), I. C. Jarvie (1044 19th St, Santa Monica, Calif), Barbara W. Lex (Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass), Joseph K. Long (Plymouth State college, Plymouth, NH), Leonard W. Moss (Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich), Richard J. Preston (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario), Lola Romanucci-Ross (University of California San Diego, La Jolla), Hans Sebald (Arizona State University, Tempe), Dean Sheils (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse), Philip Singer & Kate Ware Ankenbrandt (Center for Health Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Mich), & Sheila Womack (University City Science Center, 3624 Market St, Philadelphia, Pa), with a Reply by Michael Winkelman that examines several issues: the magic/psi linkage as a new paradigm, the definition of magic, cultural factors shaping response to reports of psychokinesis & conceptualizations of psi & mana, the relationship between psychosomatic & psychokinetic effects, the reliability of parapsychological research, & misrepresentations contained in the criticisms presented. 258 References.

American Indian Ethnobotany Database at the University of Minnesota. Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples. Materials provided by Dan Moerman, Professor of Anthropology. Search string may contain the Boolean operators "AND" or "OR" in capitals.