Case file · Folklore / legend
Reichel-Dolmatoff's Desana
In 1968 the anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff published Desana, a study of the cosmology of a Tukanoan people of the Vaupés, describing a universe of energy balanced between humans and animals and the role of yajé visions.
1968 CE · 1.25, -70.23 · status: account
The account
His work presented the shaman as an ecologist managing game and forest. Position approximate, Vaupés.
The sceptical view
Later anthropologists noted that much came from a single, partly urbanised informant, Antonio Guzmán.