General Bibliography
Abel-Vidor, S. et al. 1981. Between Continents/Between Seas: Precolumbian Art of Costa Rica. New York: H. N. Abrams.
Beyer, S. 2010. Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Halifax, J. 1988. Shaman, the Wounded Healer. New York: Thames and Hudson.
Harvey, G. 2003. Shamanism: a Reader. London and New York: Routledge.
Miller, M.E. 2012. The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec. London: Thames and Hudson.
Stone, R. R. 2011. The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Stone, R. 2002. Art of the Andes: From Chavín to Inca. London: Thames & Hudson.
Stone-Miller, R. 2002. Seeing with new eyes : highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum collection of art of the Ancient Americas. Atlanta : Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.
Tedlock, B. 2005. The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine. New York: Bantam Books.
Vitebsky, P. 2001. Shamanism. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Jaguar
Friedel, D., L. Schele, and J. Parker, eds. 1993. Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman’s Path. New York: W. Morrow.
Saunders, N. J. 1998. Icons of Power: Feline Symbolism in the Americas. London and New York: Routledge.
Wolfe, A. and B. Sleeper. 1995. Wild cats of the world. New York: Crown Publishers.
Caapi
Amaringo, P., L. Luna, and L. E. Luna. 1999. Ayahuasca Visions. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.
Dobkin de Rios, M. 1972. Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon. Illinois: Waveland Press.
Harner. M. J. 1973. “Common Themes in South American yagé Eperiences,” in M. J. Harner, ed. Hallucinogens and Shamanism, 155-175. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lamb, F.B. 1985. Rio Tigre and Beyond: The Amazon Jungle Medicine of Manuel Cordova. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.
Schultes, R. E. and R. F. Raffauf. 1992. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. Arizona: Synergetic Press.
Snake
O’Shea, M. 2005. Venomous snakes of the world. Princeton : Princeton University Press.
Pijoan, T. 1992. White Wolf Woman: Native American Transformation Myths, Collected and Retold by Teresa Pijoan. Little Rock: August House Publishers.
Anadenanthera
Greenblatt, S. 1993. New World Encounters. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Torres, C. M. 2006. Anadenanthera: Visionary Plant of Ancient South America. New York: Haworth Herbal Press.
Whale Shark
Compagno, L. 2005. Sharks of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Taylor, G. 1994. Whale sharks : the giants of Ningaloo Reef. New York : Angus and Robertson
Weiner, J. E. 1970. Chancay Art and Culture: A Critical Review. Long Beach: California State College.
Spondylus
Cordy-Collins, A. 1990. “Fonga Sigde, Shell Purveyor to the Chimu Kings.” In M. E. Moseley and A. Cordy-Collins (eds.) The Northern Dynasties: Kingship and Statecraft in Chimor 393-418. Washington D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections.
Glowacki, M. 2005. “Food of the Gods or Mere Mortals? Hallucinogenic Spondylus and Its Interpretive Implications for Early Andean Society,” Antiquity 79: 257-268.
Lamprell, K. 1987. Spondylus: Spiny Oyster Shells of the World. Leiden: Brill.
Pillsbury, J. 1996. “The Thorny Oyster and the Origins of Empire: Implications of Recently Uncovered Spondylus Imagery from Chan Chan, Peru,” Latin American Antiquity 7: 313-340.
Pelicans
Alexander, W. B. 1928. Birds of the ocean: a handbook for voyagers containing descriptions of all the sea-birds of the world, with notes on their habits and guides to their identification. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Benson, E. P. 1997. Birds and Beasts of Ancient Latin America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Del Hoyo, J., A. Elliot, J. Sargatal, and D. A. Christie. 1992. Handbook of the Birds of the World 1: Ostrich to Ducks. Spain: Lynx Edicions.
Rowe, A. P. 1984. Costumes and Featherworks of the Lords of Chimor: Textiles from Peru’s North Coast. Washington, D. C.: Textile Museum.
Van Tets, G. F. 1965. “A Comparative Study of Some Social Communication Patterns in the Pelecaniformes.” Ornithological Monographs 2: 1-88.