Amazon Tribes Create 500 Page Medicine Encyclopedia
In 2008 in of my graduate school classes (Environment and Public Policy) I had the good fortune to hear a presentation from a Bolivian diplomat who was representing the government of Evo Morales, first indigenous president elected (2006). The diplomat spoke of Morales' initiative to establish within Bolivia the first international center for indigenous medicine. This piece is about tribes in Brazil and Peru.................
The encyclopedia marks the first time shamans of an Amazonian tribe have created a full and complete transcription of their medicinal knowledge written in their own language and words. Over the centuries, Amazonian peoples have passed on through oral tradition an accumulated wealth of knowledge and techniques of treatment that are a product of their deep spiritual and physical ties to the natural world. The Matsés live in one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet and have mastered knowledge of the healing properties of its plants and animals. Yet, in a world in which cultural change is destabilizing even the most isolated societies, this knowledge is rapidly disappearing.
http://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/amazon-tribe-creates-500-page-traditional-medicine-encyclopedia/
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