Having had some experience with related drugs, I can just begin to apprehend how Manuel and his fellows employed the substance in hunting.
Wizard of the Upper Amazon is probably best known for its accounts of the culturally important uses of natural psychotropics by the Huni Kui. In other words, unlike most anthropological studies, it was not abstract.
This account, like few others, existentially impressed me with the difference between my fundamental assumptions and those apparently held by members of this jungle culture of hunter-gatherers. Years later, now a young man, he returned, curious and almost by accident, to civilization where, eventually, he recounted his life with the Huni Kui to co-author Lamb. While a boy, Manuel Córdova-Rios became lost in the Amazon jungle and was rescued, adopted and raised by the Huni Kui. Wizard of the Upper Amazon, however, gives an account which may bridge the usual gap. Even with years of immersion, the trained anthropologist may be suspected of lacking much of the fundamental mindset of those studied. One of the major problems of cultural anthropology, other than our rapid extermination of indigenous peoples, is that of perspective.
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