ANT 3241- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)
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Entheogen: "containing divine life force or energy from the gods" - plants ritually consumed for religious purposes. Ethnobotany: the study of the human cultural use of medicinal plants (including, but not limited to, hallucinogenic ones) Mescaline: america, amanita muscaria, this mushroom was probably used by the first tungus shamans of siberia. And it may have been used by the viking berserkers. Ergot: ergot is a fungus that grows on grain. When that grain is made into bread or beer, it can contain large amounts of the fungus. In the middle ages, people suffered from a syndrome known as st. anthony"s fire where they had visions of tormented by demons. They prayed to st. anthony, who had triumphed over demonic torment, to be released. Scholars today think eating ergot-infected bread caused this syndrome: chemist albert hoffman synthesized lsd from ergot in the 1940s.
