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Psychoactive Plants of the Amazon forest with Dr Glenn H Shepard
Publisher |
Sarah Wilson
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Games & Hobbies
Gardening
Interview
Categories Via RSS |
Hobbies
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Publication Date |
Sep 17, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:32:50

Dr Glenn H Shepard is an ethnobotanist, medical anthropologist and film maker whose work focuses on the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He speaks eleven languages and has done fieldwork with diverse native groups in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East researching shamanism, medicinal plants, and traditional environmental knowledge. His work features in the documentary Spirits of the Rainforest

We talk about:

- Glenn’s work with the indigenous people of the Amazon forest

- Biopiracy

- Medicinal/Psychoactive plants, in particular ayahuasca 

- How psychoactive plants may be used in the West vs the countries they originate from

- The ecological and legal consequences of exporting psychoactive plants

- The fires in the Amazon forest

 

Links 

Dr Glenn H Shepard Jr Blog - Notes from the Ethnoground 

Glenn on Twitter @tweettropiques 

Spirits of the Rainforest Documentary 

The Ethnobotanical Assembly assembly.com">www.tea-assembly.com

 

Get in touch;

Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk 

Website www.rootsandall.co.uk 

Twitter @rootsandall

Instagram rootsandallpod

 

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