A Bibliography of the Amazon: natural history, geography, culture

A Selected Bibliography of The Amazon

by
Ethan B. Russo, M.D.
and Otorongo Blanco

Bernard, H.U. Insight Guides: Amazon Wildlife,Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1993.
Brako, L, & Zarucchi, J.L. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO., 1993.
Campbell, J. A. & Lamar, W.W. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America, Cornell Univ. Press, NY, 1989.
Campbell, D.G. & Hammond, H.D. (Eds.) Floristic Inventory of Tropical Countries-The Status of Plant Systematics, Collection, and Vegetation Plus Recommendations for the Future, New York Botanical Garden, 1989.
Castner, J. L. Rainforests: A Guide to Research and Tourist Facilities at Selected Tropical Forest Sites in Central and South America. Feline Press, Gainesville, FL, 380 pp., 1990.
Castner, J.L., Timme, S.L. and Duke, J.A.. A Field Guide to Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon, Feline Press, Gainesville, FL, 154 pp.,1998.
D'Abrera, B. Butterflies of South America, Hill House, Victoria, Australia, 1984.
Daly, J.W. et al. "Frog Secretions and Hunting Magic in the Upper Amazon: Identification of a Peptide that Interacts with an Adenosine Receptor", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89: 10960-10963, 1992.
Davis, E.W. and Yost, J.A. "The Ethnomedicine of the Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador", Journal of Ethnopharmacology 9, 273-297,1983.
Davis, W. The Serpent and the Rainbow, Warner, 1985.
Der Marderosian, A.H. et al. "Native Use and Occurence of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine in Leaves of Banisteriopsis Rusbyana",
American Journal of Pharmacy 140:137-147, 1968.
Dixon, J.R. & Soini, P. The Reptiles of the Upper Amazon Basin, Iquitos Region, Peru, Parts I & II, Milwaukee Public Museum, 1986.
Dobkin de Rios, M. "Banisteriopsis in Witchcraft and Healing Activities in Iquitos, Peru", Economic Botany 24: 296-300, 1970.
Dobkin de Rios, M. "A Note on the Use of Ayahuasca among Urban Mestizo Populations in the Peruvian Amazon", American Anthropologist 72: 1419-1422, 1970.
Dobkin de Rios. Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic healing in the Peruvian Amazon, Waveland Press, 1972.
Duellman,W.E. The Biology of an Equatorial Herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador, Univ. Of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1978
Duellman, W.E., and Rodriguez, L.O., Guide to the Frogs of the Iquitos Region, Amazonian Peru, University of Kansas, 1994.
Duke, J.A. & Vasquez, R. Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1994.
Dumbacher, J.P. et al. "Homobatrachotoxin in the Genus Pitohui: Chemical Defense in Birds?", Science 258: 799-801, 1992.
Dunning, J.S. South American Birds: A Photographic Guide to Identification, Harrowwood, Newtown Square, PA, 1987.
Eisenberg, J.F. Mammals of the Neotropics, Univ. Of Chicago Press, IL, 1989.
Emmons, L.H. "Comparative Feeding Ecology of Felids in a Neotropical Rainforest", Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 20: 271-283, 1987.
Emmons, L.H. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, Univ. Of Chicago Press, IL, 1990.
English, P.H. & Parker, T.A. Birds of Eastern Ecuador, audio cassette, Cornell Univ. NY, 1992.
Erspamer, V. et al. "The Opioid Peptides of the Amphibian Skin", International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 10: 3-30, 1992
Erspamer, V. et al. "Pharmacological Studies of "Sapo" from the Frog Phyllomedusa Bicolor Skin: a Drug Used by the Peruvian Matses Indians in Shamanic Hunting Practices", Toxicon 31: 1099-1111, 1993.
Farnsworth, N.R. "Screening Plants for New Medicine", in Wilson, W.O. (Ed.), Biodiversity, National Academy Press, 1988.
Fejos, P. Ethnography of the Yagua, Viking Fund, NY, 1943.
Forsyth, A. & Miyata, K. Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America, Scribners, New York, 1984.
Freiberg, M. Snakes of South America, T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., 1982.
Gentry, A.H.(ed.), Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990.
Gentry, A.H. A Field Guide to Woody Plants of Northwest South America, Conservation International, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Goulding, M. The Fishes and the Forest, Univ. Of California Press, Berkeley, 1980.
Gudger, E.W. "Bookshelf Browsing on the Alleged Penetration of the Human Urethra by an Amazonian Catfish Called Candiru with a Review of the Allied Habits of Other Members of the Family Pygidiidae-Part I" American Journal of Surgery 8:170-188, 1930.
Gudger, E.W. Same-"Part II" American Journal of Surgery 8: 443-456, 1930.
Harner, M.J. The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls, University of California Press, Berkeley, 233 pp., 1971.
Hilty, S.L. & Brown, W.L. A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, Princeton Univ., NJ, 1986.
Hugh-Jones, S. The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia,Cambridge Univ. Press, London, 1979.
Huxley, A. Green Inheritance, Collins, London, 1984.
Johnson, A., Time Allocation in a Machiguenga Community, Ethnology 14:301-310, 1975.
Johnson, A. "Machiguenga Gardens", Chapter 2 pp. 29-63 of Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians, Vickers and Hamers (eds.), Academic Press, 1983
Johnson, O. Domestic Organization and Interpersonal Relations among the Machiguenga Indians of the Peruvian Amazon, dissertation, Columbia
University, 1978.
Johnson, O. and A. "Male/Female Relations and the Organization of Work in a Machiguenga Community", American Ethnologist 2:634-648, 1976.
King, S.R. "Among the Secoyas", Nature Conservancy Magazine, Jan/Feb., pp.6-15, 1991.
Kreig, M.B. Green Medicine: the Search for Plants that Heal, Rand McNally, 1964.
Kricher, J.C. A Neotropical Companion, Princeton Univ., NJ, 1989.
Lamb, F.B. "The Fisherman's Porpoise", Natural History 63:231-232, 1954.
Lamb, F.B. Rio Tigre and Beyond: The Amazon Jungle Medicine of Manuel Cordova, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 1974.
Lamb, F.B. Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios, North Atlantic Books, Berekely, 1970.
Leibel, W. S. South American Cichlids, Tetra Press, Blacksburg, VA, 1993.
Luna, L.E. & Amaringo, P. Ayahuasca Visions: the Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 1991.
Mabberly, D.J. The Plant Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Higher Plants, Cambridge, U.K., 1987.
Medina, J.T. (ed.) The Discovery of the Amazon, Dover, New York, 1988.
Migdalski, E.C. "Contribution to the Life History of the South American Fish Arapaima Gigas" Copeia 1: 54-56, 1957.
Milton, K. "No Pain, No Game", Natural History Sept. 1994, pp. 44-51.
Mitchell, A. W. The Enchanted Canopy, Macmillan, New York, 1986.
Moffett, M.W. The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.
Munn, C.A. "Winged Rainbows: Macaws", National Geographic, Jan. 1994, pp. 118-140.
Myers, G.L. The Piranha Book, T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., 1972.
Myers, N., The Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future, Norton, New York, 1984.
Parker, T.A. et al. An Annotated Checklist of Peruvian Birds, Buteo Books, Vermilion, SD, 1982.
Parker, T.A. Voices of the Peruvian Forest, cassette audiotape, Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State Univ., LA, 1985.
Penny, N.D. & Arias, J.D. Insects of an Amazon Forest, Columbia Univ. Press, NY, 1982.
Perrottet, T. (Ed.) Insight Guide: Ecuador, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1994.
Perrottet, T. (Ed.) Insight Guide: Peru, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1994.
Peters, C.M. et al. "Oligarchic Forests of Economic Plants in Amazonia: Utilization and Conservation of an Important Tropical Resource", Conservation Biology 3: 341-349, 1989.
Peters, C.M. et al. "Valuation of an Amazonian Forest." Nature 339: 655-656,1989.
Peters, J.A. et al. "Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I: Snakes, Part II: Lizards and Amphibians, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1986.
Phillips, K. "Weird World of the Frog", International Wildlife March-April 1994, pp.20-27.
Pilleri G. "On the Behaviour of the Amazon Dolphin, Inia geoffrensis in Beni (Bolivia)", Revue Suisse de Zoologie 76: 57-91, 1969.
Plotkin, M.J. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, Viking, 1993.
Rabinowitz, A.R. & Nottingham, B.G. "Ecology and Behavior of the Jaguar (Panthera onca) in Belize, Central America", Journal of Zoology 210:149-159, 1986.
Raffauf, R.F. A Handbook of Alkaloid-containing Plants, Wiley, New York, unpaged, 1970.
Rodriguez, L.O. & Duellman, W.E. Guide to the Frogs of the Iquitos Region, Amazonian Peru, Natural History Museum, Univ. Of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1994.
Reichel-Dolmatoff, G. The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs Among the Indians of Colombia, Temple Univ. Press, Philadelphia, 1975.
Rengifo, E. and Cerruti, T.S. Plantas Medicinales de la Amazonia Peruana. Instituto de Investigaciónes de la Amazonia Peruana (IIAP), 1997.
Russo, E.B. "Headache Treatments by Native Peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon: a Preliminary Cross-disciplinary Assessment", Journal of Ethnopharmacology 36:193-206, 1993.
Salati, E. and Vose, P.B. "Amazon Basin: A System in Equilibrium", Science22 5: 129-138, 1984.
Schultes, R.E. Hallucinogenic Plants, Golden, New York, 1976.
Schultes, R.E. "Recognition of Variability in Wild Plants By Indians of the Northwest Amazon: an Enigma", Journal of Ethnobiology 6: 229-238, 1986.
Schultes, R.E. Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, Synergetic Press, Oracle, AZ, 1988.
Schultes, R.E. & Hoffman, A. The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens, Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1980.
Schultes, R.E. & Raffauf, R. The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia, Dioscorides Press, Portland, OR, 1990.
Schultes, R.E. & Raffauf, R.E. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, their Plants and Rituals in the Columbian Amazonia, Synergetic Press, Oracle, AZ, 1992.
Smith, N.J.H. "Caimans, Capybaras, Otters, Manatees, and Man in Amazonia", Biological Conservation 19: 177-187, 1980.
Smith, N.J.H. "The Impact of Cultural and Ecological Changes on Amazonian Fisheries", Biological Conservation 32: 355-373, 1985.
Smith, N.J.H. Man, Fishes, and the Amazon, Columbia Univ., New York, 1981.
Terborgh, J.W., et al., "Annotated Checklist of Bird and Mammal Species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru", Fieldiana Zoology 21:1-29, 1984.
Timm, R.M. et al. "Ecology, Distribution , Harvest, and Conservation of the Amazonian Manatee Trichechus inunguis in Ecuador", Biotropica 18: 150-156,1986.
Tyler, V. E. "Plant drugs in the twenty-first century", Economic Botany 40:279-288, 1986.
Tyler, V.E., The Honest Herbal, Pharmaceutical Products Press, New York, 1993.
Vasquez, R. and Gentry, A.W. "Use and Misuse of Forest-harvested Fruits in the Iquitos Area", Conservation Biology 3: 350-361, 1989.
Wright, P.C. "Night Watch on the Amazon", Natural History May, 1994, pp. 44-51.
Zahl, P.A. "Seeking the Truth about the Feared Piranha", National Geographic Nov. 1970, pp. 714-732.

This bibliography is an expanding document originating from one published by Ethan B. Russo, M.D. on his excellent web site Plants of the Machiguenga. We recommend this site highly.

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