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Mushrooms and people
Authors: Christian Rätsch
Publisher: Nachtschatten Verlag;
New Edition (October 23, 2023)
Paperback: 228 pages
Language: German
ISBN: 9783037886540
Mushrooms serve and have served as food and stimulants, as medicine and remedies, as tinder for making fire, as magic mushrooms for shamanic rituals, as inspiration for literature and art, but they divide minds and cultures: they are either valued and seen as useful, or feared and associated with poisoning, death and horror. According to the founder of modern mycology, R. Gordon Wasson, the various human cultures can be categorized as mycophiles, "mushroom lovers", or mycophobes, "mushroom haters". There are cultures that value mushrooms highly and use them widely as food, medicine and intoxicants, while other cultures avoid mushrooms, view them with fear and suspicion and deny them any usefulness. In this book, the internationally renowned ethnopharmacologist Christian Rätsch vividly recounts the history of ethnomycology, accompanied by many rare illustrations, and presents the worldwide cultural uses of mushrooms.
Authors: Christian Rätsch
Publisher: Nachtschatten Verlag;
New Edition (October 23, 2023)
Paperback: 228 pages
Language: German
ISBN: 9783037886540
Mushrooms serve and have served as food and stimulants, as medicine and remedies, as tinder for making fire, as magic mushrooms for shamanic rituals, as inspiration for literature and art, but they divide minds and cultures: they are either valued and seen as useful, or feared and associated with poisoning, death and horror. According to the founder of modern mycology, R. Gordon Wasson, the various human cultures can be categorized as mycophiles, "mushroom lovers", or mycophobes, "mushroom haters". There are cultures that value mushrooms highly and use them widely as food, medicine and intoxicants, while other cultures avoid mushrooms, view them with fear and suspicion and deny them any usefulness. In this book, the internationally renowned ethnopharmacologist Christian Rätsch vividly recounts the history of ethnomycology, accompanied by many rare illustrations, and presents the worldwide cultural uses of mushrooms.
| SKU: | AN687 |
| GTIN: | 9783037886540 |
| Item weight: | 0,90 kg |
