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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
Mark Plotkin ISBN 0670831379
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Mark Plotkin ISBN 0670831379
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This book by Mark Plotkin has come up 4 times on Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Mark Plotkin, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-10-08 and the most recent from 2022-07-22. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
"Fascinating and highly readable account of an ethnobotanist's research on medicinal plants and hallucinogens among the Trio and Oyana of Suriname/Brazil and the Yanomamo of Venezuela. In view of the declining importance of shamanism and loss of plant knowledge due to rapid cultural change, author encourages research promoting the patenting of indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants, which may also serve as an important revenue source for indigenous-based cultural survival programs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
“he is best known to the general public as the author of the book tales of a shaman's apprentice one of the most popular books ever written about the rain forest”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Hamilton Morris and Dr. Mark Plotkin: Hamilton Morris is a chemist, filmmaker, and science journalist who writes and directs the documentary series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia. Dr. Mark Plotkin is an ethnobotanist, president of the Amazon Conservation Team, and author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice; here he hosts and interviews Morris for his Plants of the Gods podcast. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin interviews chemist Hamilton Morris on the history, chemistry, and conservation of psychoactive substances.
“He also wrote a book called either The or A Shaman's Apprentice, which is very very good about his adventures in places like Suriname.”— Tim Ferriss
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“He is best known to the general public as the author of the book Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, one of the most popular books about the rainforest ever published.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Dr. Mark Plotkin: Ethnobotanist and president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which partners with 55 tribes to map and manage 80 million acres of ancestral rainforest. Educated at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts, he has spent four decades studying shamans and healing plants of tropical America and authored Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin on Amazon shamans, real vs fake healers, hallucinogens like yopo and ayahuasca, and preserving rainforest medicine.
“My first book, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, it's kind of a trick title because I'm not the apprentice. They are.”— Mark Plotkin
The guest here is Dr. Mark Plotkin: Ethnobotanist and president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which partners with 55 tribes to map and manage 80 million acres of ancestral rainforest. Educated at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts, he has spent four decades studying shamans and healing plants of tropical America and authored Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin on Amazon shamans, real vs fake healers, hallucinogens like yopo and ayahuasca, and preserving rainforest medicine.
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