The use of psychoactive plants by ancient indigenous populations of the North Andes

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4689403
AutoresConstantino Manuel Torres (0000-0002-8196-9539, Florida International University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas198-211
Data de publicação2019-01-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Psychedelic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2559-9283 • E-ISSN: 2559-9283
EditoraAkademiai Kiado Zrt (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1556/2054.2018.015
OpenAlexW2910460705
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas18

This investigation focuses on the North Andes and includes discussion of monumental stone sculpture in the environs of San Agustín, Colombia, as well as Muisca, Quimbaya, and Darién (Sinú) goldworking traditions. Through formal and iconographic analyses of ceremonial paraphernalia, this paper shows that the primary ideologies of the cultures of this region involved the use of several psychoactive plants

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Ethnology · Geography · Ideology · Indigenous · Paraphernalia · Political science · Politics · Sculpture · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Ecology