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Tobacco and Shamanism in South America by Johannes Wilbert Totem teachers and anyone who isAnthropologist Johannes Wilbert here presents a comprehensive ethnography of magico religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies. Surveying nearly three hundred societies, Wilbert has found that South American Indians employ numerous means of nicotine application and that a close functional relationship exists between tobacco and shamanism. His book is "a superb reference and a pleasure to read."Robert Byck,